Another great week!

This was another fantastic week of learning in our class! We have continued observing and working with our caterpillars, begun working with 1,000 books, created some believable characters to use for writing, and started book groups!

Ur caterpillars are amazing, they are growing, eating and producing frass! Quite soon our larva will be ready to pupate, when this happens we will begin investigating the life cycle of monarchs. As our release date for monarchs approaches I will keep you posted, and although it is difficult to forecast a release date, I will let you know so you cab try to attend if you wish!

 

Spike!

Wayne!

In math, we are working on practicing with place value. To do this we are working with 1,000 books. We have been using these books to fid different numbers, as well as practice multiplication. Ask your student which 100's chart 687 is on. We have also been being mindful to read numbers correctly, that is to say we have been focussing on the difference between, six hundred and eighty even, and, six hundred eighty seven, a very subtle difference to be sure, but terribly important for the understanding of place value.

During literacy we also started book groups, and worked on creating believable characters for our writing. We are focussing on writing about character's external and internal features. That is to say, features we can observe and how the character feels about things. We also are working in new book groups. I these groups we will be working on learning different features in nonfiction text, and identifying what we can learn from these different features.

 

 

As always, have a safe and restful weekend, and if you need ti communicate with me my email address is dwillard@u32.org, or you can call me at school at extension 318.

 

Dave