Our first FULL week, was very busy! The fall weather has thankfully arrived!  We have been busily working in room 24, and have enjoyed a fun-filled week of learning! 

We wrapped up our second math unit about addition and subtraction.  The students worked very hard to practice this topic, and their hard work showed on our test.  The Pearson Realize technical glitches have been resolved, and students should be able to log into this site to share the test questions. Directions for this went home today. Students should continue to practice their addition and subtraction facts, as this will help with our next unit on multiplication.

We have published our Hopes and Dreams and our Biopoems, and our Biopoems will be on display in our classroom.  We are learning how important your audience is when writing, and we will continue this discussion throughout the next week, while we work on our next writing assignment about how students got their names.

We began learning about map skills during social studies this week, with the focus being on the continents and oceans. In the coming weeks, we will be focusing on looking at a world map and identifying our location using direction words.  We will also learn about the hemispheres and about different types of maps. This unit will continue for another few weeks.

During reading, we have continued to work on fine tuning our routines for Readers Workshop, while we practice finding the setting, theme, and main characters of a story.  Understanding these topics will help us as we begin our first Interactive Read Aloud, Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke,  next week.  Some students have started to share their favorite books with our class!  This is an excellent way to find new books to read, and to practice speaking in front of a class.  Students will also begin writing their reading journal entries next week.

We also had two wonderful author visits this week.  First, we enjoyed a visit from a JFK parent and author.  He talked with the children about brainstorming and coming up with ideas.  Next we enjoyed a virtual visit with author Amy Nielander, author of  The Ladybug Race.  Amy shared her writing process with the students, and also shared that she was rejected 12 times before getting her book published!  If you would like to order a copy of her book, please return the order form next week.  Thank you to JFK PCC for funding this visit.

During Creative Arts Friday this week, we worked on building our Puff Mobiles during PBL.  We learned about list poems and began writing our own list poems during Poetry Workshop, and during Technology Workshop, we began working on collaborating using Google Slides.

Looking Ahead ~

We will continue with our Map Skills unit in Social Studies.

We will build our terrariums during science (large jars are due next week)

We will learn about the water cycle, and then observe it in our terrariums 

We will be interviewing family members and then writing about the history of our names

We will begin learning about multiplication in math.

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