Dr. Seuss Week

This week during Reading Workshop we:

• had a school community meeting to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday.
• spent two days learning about the main idea and details in nonfiction books.
• learned to activate our prior knowledge prior to reading a nonfiction book.
• read with our first grade reading buddies.
• read several Dr. Seuss books.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

This week during Writing Workshop we:

• learned to add tips, hints, and/or warnings to our how-to books.
• reviewed that writers leave spaces between words.
• worked on editing some of our how-to books.
• read one how-to book to a buddy and revised that book according to buddy feedback.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

 This week during Math we:

• conducted surveys.  Children came up with their own yes or no survey question and asked their peers the question.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Made a bar graph to show our survey results.
• practiced counting and drawing tally marks.
• learned about the dime and played a coin exchange game.
  
• practiced balancing two sides of an equation.

This week during Science we continued our study of river rocks.  Students sorted rocks into three piles based on their type: sand, gravel, or pebbles.

This week we saw a glimpse of warmer weather!  Let's hope we continue to move in that direction.
Have a nice weekend!
Katie