If you have not done so, please sign up for a parent teacher conference. I am looking forward to speaking with each of you! During our Writer's workshop we have continued working on our true stories. We've explored adding feelings and details to our writing to make our stories the best they can be. We've also taken on a big challenge and selected personal writing goals. After examining several mentor texts such as Are You My Mother?; Not Norman; and Mother Bruce each child chose a personal goal to focus on for the next few weeks. Writers could choose to focus on spaces between words, writing priority words correctly, stretching out words or writing more for example. During our Math block we played hiding bears again, this time writing a number model to match. We used playdough to level a pan balance, practiced adding small numbers with Mr. Gurtman and learned how important it is make smart estimates. On Thursday we each conducted a survey and decided on a way to display this data in a way that was easy to read. During our Reader's workshop we each read with Ms. McCormack and received one OR two (!) new just right books. We practiced reading harder words like went and this; practiced identifying and writing vowel sounds; and we worked with Miss. Jess to put the letters of the alphabet in order. We continue to learn about pushes and pulls. This week we visited the maker space to create playground equipment that can be used with either a pull or a push. Here are some pictures of us working at our creations and sharing their function with our classmates.
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