Picturing Writing

This week was very fun! Yesterday, we finished our picturing writing with the writing piece of our spider paintings. We had made the paintings using glue resist and discussed what the background might look like. The student chose the time of day to showcase their spider and web. We have been reading the book Charlotte’s Web and have learned quite a bit about spiders and have compared them to our caterpillars/butterflies. We made a list of different facts that we have learned about spiders and used the facts in our writing. We will need to continue to practice writing using capital beginnings, spacing, and ending marks in the correct places.

In math, we reviewed fact families and finding missing numbers. We also learned some “tricks” to help us find sums of equations faster using what we know about our doubles facts.

In reading, we lost the privilege of the listening center :( Our reading stamina decreased last week and this week-- we needed to review how to read to self. The listening center will return next week. Students have been working with me in small groups (2-5 kids/group) to work on reading skills with me. Please continue to read with your child at home.

Next week Susan Armington, an artist, will be joining our class and will help the children create a wetland environment. The students will discuss the different animals that they saw while at the Dodge Nature Center back in September and will also explore different life cycles around a wetland. Susan will be with us all week long to finish the project on Friday (in time to show it off for the Moreland Masquerade).

Have a wonderful long weekend!