What's up for the week?

This week we are very busy! I am finishing up assessments so I can start small groups in reading as well as starting parent volunteers to extend our classroom learning.

We will have our first math test next Monday and then I will group kids based on needs to where I can re-teach necessary skills.

Our school fundraising walkathon is this Saturday at 4pm in the Zeeland wetlands...rumor has it there will be a staff dunk tank! :)

This week we are starting a unit on pattern books and studying different structures in our writing. We are visiting an old favorite, "Rain" and learning how authors plan their stories before they write them by using T-Charts:

We are also doing many activities with a favorite story, "Pete the Cat" you can download the song that accompanies the story for free at the publishers website here!

Next were we will begin our study in life cycles and dive deeper into the idea of nonfiction.

We are celebrating meeting our goal of 20 minutes of read to self time by learning about a new choice during daily 5, called "be a writer." this will be a time where your child can explore many genres of writing based on interest, outside of our writing workshop time. This is a choice, so students do not have to choose this every day. I am excited for our class to start building stamina with this second choice!

Parent night is tomorrow night and I look forward to sharing my love for this grade with you and welcome your questions, comments, etc.

Have a wonderful week!