Weekly update

Dear families,
This week went by too fast.  Today is Ms. Dani's last day with us.  We had a great celebration together.  The students had made a book of memories for her, which we rated together.  We also gave Ms. Dani a Bee-Pillowpet, to remind her of our classroom and school motto to be safe, kind and responsible.  Ms. Dani gave the students beautiful bookmarks.  We will use them every day.  We love to read.
We celebrated our nonfiction books with an Author's Cafe.  We served up stories and read them to our friends, learning buddies and parents.  Thank you for joining us in this special celebration and thank you for sending in all of the terrific treats.
In computer lab this week, we explored a website called wordle.net.  It is a site that allows the user to create visual pictures of words in different arrangements and colors.  Since we have studied character traits in the last couple of weeks, we created wordles, using words that describe ourselves.  We will continue using wordle.net next week as well.
In reading, we wrapped up our unit on character traits.  Throughout this unit, the students learned how to use the text to find evidence for different kinds of character traits, how characters change in books and how characters from different books have similar, and different, character traits.  Next week, we will read nonfiction books together.  We will search for non-fiction writing elements and talk about informational books and main ideas.
Lastly, the weather is getting colder.  We have recess every day. Please send your child in with snow boots, hats, gloves and warm jackets.  Thank you.
Have a great weekend.
Maria