A FUN week!

We began our week in a pajama celebration.  Thank you to Mrs. Rice for coming in on Tuesday to create FUN RUN posters to support our schoolmates during our run on Friday.  We ended our week with a fabulous whole school Fun Run event!

Here we are making our posters!

Our mornings are filled with creativity and smiles.

This week we learned about honey bees with Miss Meg & Miss Maddie with Farm to School.  We experienced mindful eating with apples and fresh honey.  Ask your child about some interesting honey bee facts. 

Our classroom community is learning a lot about each other with our daily lightning shares with conversations starters.  They are creating opportunities for continued connections and topics to discuss further.  We are able to group juggle!  We made it to three bean bag frogs so far!

We completed one more week of routine word study.  We will start more focused word study starting on October 22nd.  This upcoming three day week we will review our activities.  

During number corner this month we are looking at both pinnate and palmate leaf patterns, counting minutes in groups of 5, building rectangles with tiles to represent arrays with links to both addition and groups of numbers.  We will continue to build our decade and century counting number lines.  

Mrs. Courcelle, our information technology educator, joined our class twice this week to get us started using Typing Quest and a read/write function on google drive.  

This week we took a math assessment on our first unit.  Students had an opportunity to correct the assessment as well, learning from their mistakes and making thoughtful corrections.

We began our states of matter unit.  We created a chart with ideas we think we know about states of matter and some wonderings we have. We read a non-fiction book to give us some guiding information.  This upcoming week we will have an opportunity to explore at stations and experience for ourselves.  

We are writing our small moment narrative stories with the guidance of sequencing words: First, Next, Then & Last.  We then add details to our stories as we write.  

We read every afternoon.  Each student reads from books in their book box.  We love to read in our classroom.  

I hope you've enjoyed the beauty of this weekend.  

I'm grateful for our classroom communtiy.

Jen Belisle