Our First Two Weeks!

It was great meeting so many parents at our Back to School Conferences.  If we have not yet met I look forward to meeting with you in the near future.

We've had an excellent start in Room 12.  In math we've worked on becoming strong independent problem solvers through the use of the 4 4s number challenge and through our work connecting visual patterns to the number system. We began our enVision math program and are currently working on understanding place value concepts. We started Writers' Workshop by sharing our life stories. Each day, we gather on the rug for a brief mini-lesson about writing and then practice our learning in our Writing Journals.  I am pleased with our efforts.  Reading instruction has focused on learning to categorize objects and words as a precursor for learning how to identify main ideas and details in a piece of non-fiction text. We are also learning how to become strong independent readers by learning to choose age appropriate books and apply ourselves to reading those books on a consistent basis.  We discussed our histories as readers and wrote about them in our Reader's Notebooks. In science we are studying plant structures and began the unit with flower dissection.  We are learning to be good observers and learning how to reflect on our observations in our digital science journals.

Plant dissection in Room 12!