Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

On Monday, we celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss through our March community meeting.  We also spent the week sharing laughs by reading many different Dr. Seuss books.  The children have been drawn to our collection of Dr. Seuss books, and they have even been choosing to read them during Free Exploration time!

Although our reading unit is currently focused on Nonfiction books, we mixed in lots of fantasy this week through our Dr. Seuss read alouds.  We were able to practice identifying and naming rhyming words. 

This week during reading, we also read/sang Down by the Bay.  We identified rhyming words in this familiar song, came up with our own rhyming ideas for the song, and used the book to learn the word "by."

During a nonfiction book lesson, we learned about captions.  It is important for readers to read the captions on a page as they help them better understand what the picture is showing.

As always, we had a week full of literacy work stations!

Handwriting Work Station

iPad Work Station

Listening Work Station

ABC Work Station

Writing Work Station

Shared Reading Work Station

This week during Writing Workshop, we tried to wrap-up our How-To Unit.  I say "tried" because most of us still have some work to finish on Monday.  We spent the week publishing one of our how-to books.  We:

• edited our book for finger spaces and correct spelling of word wall words.
• rewrote our book onto our final draft paper.
• drew new illustrations.
• wrote over all our pencil in marker.
• glued the pages of our book onto construction paper.

The plan for next week is to finish publishing our books on Monday and to share them on Tuesday.  We will also begin nonfiction writing next week!

This week during math we:

• spent a few days continuing to learn about measurement.  We reviewed that it is important to have standard size units.  We learned about a ruler, meter stick, and tape measure, and we had time to measure objects in the classroom using all three tools.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• practiced skip counting by 5's and discussed the pattern we noticed (every number as either a five or a zero in the one's place).
• learned about tally marks. 
• played a game to help us practice addition facts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

We had another cold week with many inside recesses.  Let's hope that by "springing forward" this weekend we leave the frigid days behind us.

Sincerely,
Katie