Week of January 4 - 8, 2010

Happy New Year! It was great to see the children again after a long, restful break. We jumped right back into our Writer's Workshop by writing some New Year's Resolutions. In Reader's Workshop we began a new author study on Ezra Jack Keats and used his classic The Snowy Day to talk about how good readers make connections with the stories we read. Everyone was able to relate to this favorite story after our big snow! In Math Workshop we began focusing on subtraction skills and how to use appropriate symbols in our number sentences. A highlight of our week was a trip to the planetarium and the beginning of our science unit on the earth and space system.