Happy Monday! Boy, did we have a busy week last week. We finished up our Launching Unit in Readers' and Writers' Workshop. We had to learn about being good listeners, and appreciating others work. It has been a wonderful time to relearn the skill that others, have just as important things to say and share, as we do. Please review the Writing your child is bringing home today. You may keep the letter but please return their collection of writing samples to school in the next few days. Our Responsive Classroom morning meetings, have really helped us to practice not shouting out when we agree or can relate to what others are sharing.
In Readers' Workshop we used our post it notes for the first time in bookmarking the favorite parts of our stories. We will be using them more, as the year goes on, to reflect about certain parts of the stories.
In Math, we have finished Unit One and I sent home the Family Letter for Unit Two. Please review the Do Anytime Activities provided. We learned a new game this week, Rolling to 50. We also learned a new Number Grid game on the computer. The Number Grid is a very important tool for them to use in the math activities and my hope by the end of the year is for the students to mentally picture where the numbers are on the grid without them needing the hard copy in front of them.
International Day of Peace is Friday. We will be having a special town meeting and the students are encouraged to wear any symbol of peace on their shirts. Otherwise Spirit Day ware is appropriate. We will be making peace rocks for our Lower Division peace rock garden. There will also be displays in the hall reflecting on what Peace means to them.
I will be sending home another book order in October, if you missed September. We should have our new books shortly.
Please check out Sr. Zamoff's blog for Spanish. He will now be posting weekly.