Elephant and Piggie

On Monday, we had a great field trip to Merrill Auditorium to see Elephant and Piggie's "We Are In a Play!"  The children enjoyed many laughs as they watched these beloved characters come to life.

The play aligned nicely with our current Reading Workshop unit: Getting to Know Characters. Readers have continued to learn to:

• pay attention to characters' facial expressions and body language.
• notice how a character's feelings might change throughout a story and why.
• pretend to talk like the characters.
• act out a story with our reading partners.  
• retell a story when we have finished reading.

During Writing Workshop, we have been working on our end-of-year small moment writing unit.  The students have learned to:

• think of something they've done and tell the story across multiple pages in a booklet.
• use sequencing words to tell and write our story in order. 
• end our story in the moment instead of continuing on to another story.
• draw illustrations that show what was happening in our story.
• make sure the faces of people in our illustrations show what those people were feeling.  

During Math we:

• played Clear the Board to help us practice adding and to learn more about probability. 
• played Car Race to practice decomposing numbers.
• worked on combinations of ten.
• solved addition and subtraction number stories.
• played Addition Top-It.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

I hope you all have a great Mother's Day weekend!

Katie