During our Reader’s workshop we each had a chance to read many times with Ms. McCormack and each child received a new just-right book. We worked in several centers where we practiced reading and writing harder words, making words that rhyme with take, and writing small words with the correct vowel sound. We also worked on two spring Pokey-Pin activities which really help to strengthen our fine motor muscles. During our math block we played Growing and Disappearing Train (and recorded our rolls), practiced adding small numbers when we worked with Mr. Gurtman and solved pattern block puzzles. We played some fun games called Mystery Block and Dice Addition. We each wrote a number story, practiced adding small numbers using a number line when we played Frog Hop, and we tried to identify a 3-d shape by it’s feel. During Writer’s Workshop we began a new unit of study about persuasive writing. We immersed ourselves in stories of persuasion and opinion. We discovered that an opinion is something that is true for me while a fact is something that is true for everyone. We read stories which feature a character who voices a strong opinion and tries to persuade others to believe that same thing. Stories such as Duck! Rabbit!; Franklin Wants a Pet; and Hey, Little Ant will be valuable mentor texts as we work on developing our own persuasive pieces. Mrs. Hutchins visited us this week to talk with us about the 5 Point Scale. She introduced the poster that shows us what each point means and she let us know that we’ll be seeing these posters all around our school. Then she read a great story about a pair of lobsters named Bob and Shirley.
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