Nov 8th

A mysterious package arrived in our classroom with this letter inside it. 

In the package, there are 5 missions for us to do so that we could earn a word detective badge and join the Secret Detective Agency. We are super excited! 

In writing, we studied George McClements' craft moves. We liked his pop out words, ellipses, and juicy words. We will try them out in our own writing. 

Commutative Property of Addition oh my!  We also call it the turn around fact. 

We started a new science unit about our planet, Earth.

Nov 1st

We are trying out our inventions in Science.

We invented apple trappers. 

In phonics, we are finding patterns in our snap words. In reading, we continue to use strategies (instead of our bad habits) on challenging words. 

In writing, we are adding more details like who, what, where and when.

In math, we are learning the addition facts that make the number 10. 

Our stories are teaching us life lessons.

Engineers hard at work!

We asked how we could slowly drop a bobby pin on our paper.

We looked at things in nature that drop slowly.
Then we imagined and planned how it could be
done with paper. 

After we created our invention, we tried them out.

We learned to keep improving and trying our invention out. 

We are excited to create more inventions. 

Reading more and more!

We are rereading our books and giving ourselves a tally for each time we do. 

In science we are learning about animal parts. 

We are also learning how animals use their body parts to help them survive.

Today we compared numbers by making a number line and playing a game called Top-It. 

The things we learn in Fall.

The author's message tells us that some transitions are hard!  Ask your child which tree they liked best. 

Learning to count with accuracy. First we estimate and then we use several strategies to see how close we come to our estimate. 

We started writing personal narratives. One time I.....

Learning to read with a partner.

In the beginning....

We use number lines to count and solve mystery numbers. 

We tell personal narratives for writing. 

We build good reading habits.

We assess what students know about animal parts.

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Back to School

Learning how to line up for the hallway. 

Ready for a transition in the hallway. So impressive! 

Morning meeting activity of building a tower.

Math tools! 

Independent reading time.

Loving books already! Yay!

Counting bugs in rainbow style. So fun!