Our Week In Review

Spring has finally arrived!  We have been working very hard to wrap up various activities before the home stretch.

This week we completed the math MCAS tests.  The children worked really hard for both days!

Due to the MCAS we did not read much from our newest interactive read aloud, Charlotte's Web.  We are all looking forward to reading this story of friendship and overcoming challenges.

We have been working to wrap up and publish our expert pieces.  This week we started to type these assignments into our Google Drive.  We learned how to insert a page break and a table.  Next week we will continue to type and learn how to insert pictures into our books.  We will also illustrate some of the pages and create a final book, complete with a table of contents and chapters.

During poetry workshop, we learned about a poet/artist, Douglas Florian, who paints watercolors and writes nature poems about those paintings.  We painted nature themed water colors on brown paper bags this week, and have started writing companion poems in free verse style.

We wrapped up our final piece of our Weather unit!  Next week, we will begin our last science unit ~ Magnetism and Electricity.

We also wrapped up our study of the Midwest, and have completed both assessments.  We will "travel" to the West beginning on Monday.