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Monday, March 17, 2014

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Dear Parents,

I apologize for not including any pictures in this week's post.  Sometimes, the week gets away from me and I realize I didn't take many pictures throughout the week.  I promise to include plenty of pictures in my next post.  Thanks for understanding!

Last week during Reading Workshop we:
  • learned about the -at word family and created a list of words that belong to this family.  
  • learned that when two vowels are side-by-side in a word, usually you hear the name of the first vowel and the second vowel is silent.
  • reviewed that when we finish reading a nonfiction book, we need to tell the big idea and details about the book before we move on to a new book.  Reading is thinking!
  • added "for" to our word wall.

Last week during Writing Workshop we:
  • finished publishing our how-to books.  This was a more time consuming project than I had anticipated it would be, but we finished and shared our posters with the class.
  • learned that we can write our own nonfiction books (all-about books).  We are experts in many areas, and we can write books to teach others what we know.
  • learned that when we write all-about books, we are writing nonfiction books to teach others new information instead of writing stories about something we've done.

Last week during Math we:
  • played Addition Top-It.
  • learned about +0 and +1 addition facts.
  • created and analyzed a graph depicting the pets we have.
Until next week,
Katie

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