In Writer's Workshop we concentrated on getting our "All-About" books ready for our Publishing Party on Friday. We have also been working on writing sentences correctly with a focus on capital letters at the beginning of sentences and periods at the end. Identifying nouns (also called naming words) was also part of our grammar work. In Reader's Workshop we have been working on retelling stories we hear or read by icluding as many specific details as possible as we tell what happens at the beginning, middle and end of stories. While listening to Evangeline Mudd and the Golden-Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle, we have been drawing mental images of the setting and characters in the story. In Math Workshop we are working on fact fluency by playing games that help us practice our math facts up to ten.
Some highlights of the week included the Black History Assembly (postponed by the February blizzards). Del Walters, an investigative reporter for ABC News and a well known author, issued us a challenge to raise one dollar a piece to help people in a Haitian village that were hit hard by the earthquake there in January. We will keep you posted on how we decide to raise that money. Also, we had fun celebrating my birthday on Tuesday. I so appreciate all the cards, the song, cupcakes, balloon and other treats that I received throughout the day. It was a fun day and I am so thankful that I could celebrate it with such wonderful children and their parents!
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