Week of October 26-30, 2009

We had lots of fun this week using Halloween stories, songs and games to further our literacy, math and science skills. Our very first Publishing Party was a great success and we were all proud of our stories and excited to share them with the group. We have also enjoyed reading each other's stories during independent reading time. We started a new unit in Writer's Workshop called "Small Moments" which is helping us stretch out our story ideas into more parts. We made Pumpkin Glyphs about ourselves and we are having fun figuring out who is who according to clues. Measuring different objects using non-standard units to measure with was lots of fun, especially when we could eat one of our units! (See below.) Many thanks to all the parents who helped in the classroom during the week and for making our Halloween Party and Parade exciting and fun!