Week of November 3rd

This week we began a unit of study on Mo Willems.  He is the author of the "Knuffle Bunny" series, "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" series, the Piggy and Elephant series and many more.  We learned how he has only been an author for 10 years and was originally a screen writer for film as well as a Stand-up Comedian.  He was inspired by the "Peanuts" comic scrip when he was a kid.  He writes wonderful children's stories that are very humorous.  We will be reading lots of his books and doing various activities.  Below are some of these that we have done so far:

 In math we learned some new games that can be played over and over again in our work places.  This unit is helping us strengthen our strategies for adding and subtracting math facts.

In Writing we are working on editing our Small Moments and will be publishing one next week using an app called "Book Creator" on the ipads.  We will publish another of our small moment stories in December and will pick a date to share both of these with families.  Stay tuned for that invitation at the beginning of December.

In Fundations we finished Unit 4 on bonus letters.  Next week we will begin Unit 5 and be learning about the glued sounds "am" and "an".

I sent home our first Scholastic book order forms today.  You can use the link on the blog to order on-line or order from the paper order forms that went home in Friday folders.

Have a wonderful weekend,
Nancy