Week of September 4th

This week we began our first unit in math along with our first batch of work places. The first work places are all exploration. Students have been able to explore geoboards, geoblocks, unifix cubes, math buckets (shells, buttons, glass blobs, frogs, and bugs), pattern blocks and square tiles. They love being able to do this. It gives us a chance to revisit the routine for work places for the rest of the year. In Literacy this week we began our Unit on Red Clover books. We read 3 of them this week along with the 1st Grade Classroom. We read "The Princess and the Pig", "Three By the Sea" and "Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy". For "The Princess and the Pig", 2nd Graders paired up with a 1st grader and compared & contrasted this story along with two other Fairy Tales ("Puss and Boots" and "The Sleeping Beauty"). I was very impressed with their notices of what was the same and what was different in the stories. For "Three By the Sea" the 1st & 2nd graders were broken up into small groups and acted out scenes in the story. This was a lot of fun to watch and see how creative they were with the scenes. I want to thank the families who were able to attend our Curriculum Night last night. We appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedules to attend. For those families who were unable to attend, I sent home the Curriculum Night packet in your child's Friday folder. Please let me know if you have any questions. Also in the Friday folder this week was their first homework assignment. They have a Fundations packet and a reading log. I explained it all to them this afternoon but if you have any questions about it, please let me know. Have a wonderful weekend, Nancy Below is our 1st Share of the year: