Penguings, Groundhog Day and Some Information!

We had a blast this week learning about penguins! We tied our nonfiction unit in Reader's and Writer's Workshop right into the penguin unit. We learned how we may come to tricky words in nonfiction but we can use strategies to tackle those tricky words. I modeled with many penguin books and we tackled big words such as hemisphere and regurgitation! We started out the week by writing down any schema we had about penguins. We will add our new learning to the chart on Monday! In Writer's Workshop we worked on an All About Book - All About Penguins. We learned about what all about books often have and we put some of those into our own books. They came out great. Next week the students will begin to think of topics for their own all about books. In Math we got to practice measuring with tape measures and also measured out heights for various penguins. The students are working in small groups to draw and color the penguins to look realistic. Hopefully we will be done this upcoming week and I can post some pictures!

 

 

We also read a nonfiction book about Groundhog day. Then we predicted whether Punxatawney Phil would see his shadow yesterday.



A reminder to please bring in cleaned out gallon milk jugs (labels off) for our Valentine's Day cards! I will also send a paper notice home but if you have extra that would be fantastic. You can start to send some in now! I also plan to have Valentine's Day craft workshops again so anyone that is available that day and would like to come, I would be so appreciative!

Please remember to write a letter or at least a short note back to your child in their parent notebook. It isn't just to sign your name that you have read it, but instead to write a short letter back that they can read.

Don't forget about our 100th Day dress up activity! Dressing up as if they are 100 years old is for our actual 100th day (the 12th). I know our school is having a celebration but that is on the 8th.

We also have Literacy Night for the parents/kids on the 7th! Just a reminder if you haven't passed in your form yet.