Our Week In Review

This week we began writing "Partner Poems".  We worked with the students from Mrs. Williams' class to write Cinquains about a character or part of our read aloud, Mr. Popper's Penguins. We will revise and edit these poems next week.

Later in the week, we wrapped up our multiplication unit with some review, and then a test today.  Most of the children did very well on the assessment. Some students are still making errors with addition and multiplication facts.  I have encouraged them to keep practicing!  Please support this effort with your child.

math centers

Black and White Day

Today we celebrated the end of our first Interactive Read Aloud, Mr. Popper's Penguins.  Black and White day was a big success.  We began the day creating Antarctic artwork using black construction paper and chalk.  After the artwork, we took a break from the Black and  White activities to take our math test.  Then we enjoyed our Black and White snacks while watching March of the Penguins.  In art, we were able to create Black and White Collages (thanks Mrs. Hess!). 

Antarctic Art

After art, we played a modified version of Pictionary with Mrs. Williams' class.  We enjoyed the friendly competition of drawing some vocabulary words from our book.  Though Mrs. Williams' class guessed more words, we did enjoy this game!

Later, we took a test about our book, Mr. Popper's Penguins.  Mrs. Merten will correct these, and we will glue them into our interactive read aloud journals. Look for these journals to come home in the coming week or two, so that families can see their child's reading progress. Please remember to return the journal the next day because we will continue to use it for our next story.


Finally today, we got to look at some pictures of ancestors of the students in our class. We were surprised to see so many inherited traits in our friends!