Writing Celebration!

Last week during Writing Workshop we finished fancying-up our small moment stories.  We celebrated the end of this unit by sharing our stories with small groups of children in our own classroom and then with our first grade reading buddies. 

We also drew and labeled the parts of a fall tree during Writing Workshop last week.

Last week during Reading Workshop we:

• reviewed that when we are learning to read, our books usually follow a pattern.  We read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, identified the pattern, and used "Eagle Eye" (the pictures) to help us figure out the changing text on each page.
• added "do" and "you" to our word wall.
• learned that readers reread the same book several times to become better at reading it.
• read with our first grade reading buddies in Mrs. Boutin's classroom!
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Last week during Math we:

• played the Ten Frame Game to help us practice recognizing numbers represented on a ten frame.
  
• played a game to help us learn about collecting and recording data and reading a bar graph.
• learned about a pan balance as a tool for comparing weights.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• used dominoes to help us learn that there are different combinations of numbers equal to a given number (from 0-12).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

I hope you enjoyed the weekend.
Warmly,
Katie