Weekly Update

Dear Families,

First of all I just wanted to let you know that I encountered some technical difficulties last week when I was attempting to post our weekly update. My apologies, but sometimes online resources work in mysterious ways and do not cooperate. Hopefully, this will work better this week.

We had such a terrific week together last week. On Monday, Team Harmony went to the Flynn Theater to see the musical "Imagineocean". It was amazing. I hope your child told you all about the story, the music and the incredible puppetry on stage. The story was about three fish friends who went on an adventure together to find a treasure, and in their quest together, they discover the true meaning of friendship.

On Wednesday, we had the opportunity to visit Williston Central School and listen to the 3-4 Chorus. It was also terrific. The singing was great. Lauren blogged about this already, so if you missed her post, please do not forget to scroll down to read about her experience. We hope to have a student in our classroom blog here once a week and reflect on the week and our learning together. Please visit us back often as we post throughout the week. Thank you!

This week in Reader's Workshop, the students continued reading non-fictional stories. Currently, we are learning strategies to become better and more efficient readers when we read non-fiction texts. Among other things, we have learned to carefully consider the title as the author sometimes gives us "clues" as to what it really important or what the important facts are. In other words, a book entitled "How penguins care for their babies" will mostly deal with how the penguins take care of their babies and not necessarily about where they live and what they eat. The students continued to "stop and think" after reading pages, or sections, of our non-fiction texts to make sure they fully understood what was just read. They are encouraged to revoice in their own words as well.

This week in Writer's Workshop, we finished our creative narratives about Tacky. We had a celebration with our Blogging Buddies. See pictures from this special even and visit this link to listen to our Voicethread. Thank you!






Have a great week,
Maria