Week of March 27th

Reading Challenge #1: 
Reading outside of the classroom.

Campbell reading on her porch!  She also had "reading conferences" with her mom!

Reading Challenge #2: 
Traveling Book Bag

Hope's writing from the books in the traveling book bag!

Van's writing from the books in the traveling book bag!

Harper and his mom's writing from the books in the traveling book bag!  I love how he FaceTimed with his dad!

Writing Challenge #1: 
Write down someone's news.

Lilah shared her news!

 Vincent shared his news!

Mary Mac shared her news!

Writing Challenge #4:
Our writing challenge this week is inspired by Sadie Mae, Carter and Lilah!  Last week on our class blog I added pictures of Sadie Mae and Carter's writing pieces.  They wrote stories about their experiences, trips and adventures.  This week I am adding Lilah's story which talks about her experience but also tells you steps for how to get somewhere.  Encourage your kids to write about their weekend, trips, or experiences.  They can write about something that they have done or something that they will do.  They can send these in to share or you can share a picture with us!  This will be great with spring break coming up too!

What We've Been Learning 

WIN (What I Need): I can read, write and create. 

During this time of day Mrs. Miller and I read and write with students.  Other students are in groups where they read with a partner, write, listen to books or use Stem bins to create.  

Creating with Playdoh and tooth picks!

Writing: I can write an informative story. 
We are continuing to work on informative writing.  This week we have been writing facts about oviparous animals since we have been learning about them in science.  The kids love writing facts about the "mystery" animal in their egg, reading the clues (facts) to the class and then having the class think about the facts and guess what animal is in their egg.

Hank sharing his facts about the oviparous animal he chose!

Science: I can identify oviparous animals. 
We are still learning about oviparous animals; animals that lay eggs.  This week we are specifically focusing on chickens because next week we are going to get chicken eggs in our classroom!  We are hoping to see part of the life cycle of a chicken in real life.  We will have the eggs in an incubator and we hope we will be able to see them hatch!  We learned about the life cycle of a chicken to get us ready.

Leela working on her chicken life cycle wheel!

Week of March 20th

Reading Challenge #2:
Traveling Book Bag

Parker and his family's writing from the books in the traveling book bag!

Ryan's writing from the books in the traveling book bag!

Caroline's writing from the books in the traveling book bag!

Caroline's mom's favorite book!

Reading Challenge #4:
Put books in the car for your kids to read.

Hudson reading in the car rider line!  His mom said, "Hudson loves all of the Pigeon books so he wanted to read on his way to school this morning!"

Writing Challenge #1:
Write down someone's news.

Campbell wrote down news all weekend!  Campbell's mom said, "Campbell is constantly writing letters and being a teacher."

Lilah wrote down her news this weekend!

Writing Challenge #3: 
Our writing challenge this week is inspired by Parker!  Parker shared with the class that he got a special writing journal that he can keep his writing in.  This week let your child pick out a special writing journal or something to keep their writing in.  This will help encourage them to write for fun!


*Preview of next weeks writing challenge*

Sadie Mae's writing about her trip to the beach!

Carter's narrative stories about his different adventures!

More Writing Done at Home:

Ella wrote a song!

Gabby and her sister wrote a story together!

Ella wrote a story/ directions for how to brush your teeth!

What We've Been Learning

Reading: I can identify features of informational texts.
We have been working on finding features in informational texts these past two weeks.  Some of the features that we have been focusing on are finding and explaining the table of contents, index, glossary, bold print and labels.  Here is a chart that we refer to daily.

Science: I can identify oviparous animals. 
We have had so much fun learning about oviparous animals this week.  On Monday we learned that oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs.  We first read the book Chickens Aren't the Only Ones to learn about oviparous animals.  To make learning fun and engaging, we then gave the kids an egg filled with an oviparous animal.  We pretended like we were the animal inside hatching from the egg and then we moved back to our seats like the oviparous animal would.  The next day we sorted oviparous animals in a variety of ways.

Finding out which animals are oviparous!

Sorting oviparous animals!