I hope you had a w wonderful weekend. Today we had our 2nd science class. The students observed flowers today and recorded their observations in their science notebooks. They are learning to use diagrams, labels, and I notice statements to record their observations. Today's activity involved a lot of teamwork and small and large group discussion.
During our Literacy Block, I introduced the students to the activity of Read to Someone. This is a component of the Daily 5 and is valuable in that it allows the students to read a loud to a peer and also has the listener working on their comprehension skills. I have included a You Tube link that models this introduction (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCqhzkp9s0).
During writing time, we discussed the idea of one topic books and read a few non fiction books that were examples of this type of writing. This week, the students will start working on their own single focus books.
Notes:
* We will have an all school hike on Friday afternoon. We will leave school at 11:30 and head to Sugarbush. We will eat lunch on the hillside, then hike, and return to school at 2:00. The lunch program will be offering ham and cheese or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Please email or call Kathi and let her know your child's desired choice (if a lunch needs to be provided) by Thursday.
*Open House is tomorrow evening. I look forward to seeing each of you and hope you take this opportunity to have your child show you their school and what is most important to them. As always, I will be there to talk about general classroom happenings but I ask that you refrain from asking specific academic questions about your child. I would not want to speak about their individual performance in front of other peers and parents.
I hope you all have a great week.
Peace,
Tommy
