We have earned another star party!!! The kids were super excited about this on Friday as they were working toward a pj party. We will have our pj party on Tuesday. The kids can wear their pjs to school and bring either a pillow or blanket, a stuffed animal, and they can bring slippers to school too.
This coming up week we will be wrapping up our How To writing unit and will return to writing Small Moments. In computers we are typing up our How To stories and creating pictures to go with our writing. We are just in the beginning stages of this, but the kids are really excited about it.
In reading we will continue with our Non-fiction unit as we explore non-fiction features and how to read and respond to non-fiction writing. It has been really fun to see what the kids are interested in and to share their excitement with their classmates. We will also focus on learning new words and using our reading strategies to figure out these unknown words.
In math we will take a pretest on Monday and then begin our next unit. This unit will begin focusing on adding and subtracting teen numbers.
We will wrap up our social studies unit on geography this week and then take some time to look at some historical figures in our history as we prepare to start our history unit. The figures we will talk about our Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Ruby Bridges. This week the kids had such a great time studying and talking about maps - I wish you could have been there to hear the conversations. I just stood back for a bit and soaked it all in. It was so great to see the kids learning from each other!