This week, we have continued with our Non-fiction "All About" writing unit. The students have all been able to pick a topic that they already know "all about" to demonstrate their ability to write an informative writing piece that includes facts and non-fiction text features, such as, a table of contents, headings, labels, and a glossary to organize their ideas. The students have blogged about what they have learned about non-fiction and what they have enjoyed about our unit so far. Please feel free to comment on these new posts! The class was able to use the iPads to create beautiful Doodle Buddy illustrations that include labels for their writing pieces. It is amazing to see how much technology can be incorporated into our classroom activities to further student's learning. For the next week, students will be finishing up their All About books and I cannot wait to see their finished pieces!
In Reader's Workshop, we have focused on identifying outside characteristics of characters in our guided reading groups, and in all of our read-alouds. Next week, we will be focusing on inside characteristics as well.
In Math this week, students have created a beautiful Sea Star Quilt which we have used to focus on counting by 5's. Next week students will be focusing on counting by 10's. We are wrapping up our current unit, and we are excited to be moving onto a new unit next week!
Mrs. McCormack and I will be co-teaching again for the next few weeks. We wanted to thank all of the parents who have come to conferences so far, and are looking forward to meeting with those we have not met with yet.
Regards,
Dani
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