Good Bye!

Another friend is moving and today is his last day with us. We are so going to miss this kind, clever, energetic, compassionate young man!

Preparing For Publication

We are publishing narratives. First we selected a piece to revise for publication and since then have been busy revising. We have written powerful beginnings and modified our endings to include dialogue and feeling. A huge part has been ensuring our stories are "easy to read." To do this we used a checklist (picture provided below) to make sure our writing is neat enough to read, has lots of letters for  each word, includes words from the word wall, has spaces between words, includes lowercase letters where appropriate, and includes uppercase letters at the beginning of each sentence. Next week, as part of our writing celebration, we will be reading them to a third/fourth grade partner!

Guest Readers

Thank you to all the parents who have come to share their favorite stories with us! There is still time if you want in!!!! :)

Memorial Day Celebration

Left & Right

Today we used our hands to learn about right and left while practicing the language of location and direction. We first determined our right and left and then played a whole class game that got us moving. I called out a direction for students to follow. Here are some examples:

Put your left hand behind your back.

Put your right hand above your head.

We then traced our hands and labeled them right and left. Our activities helped us learn and apply the following skills and concepts:

Use the directional words left and right to describe movement

Describe the location of one object relative to another object using words such as in, out over, under, above, below, beside, between, next to, across from, behind, in front of, near and far

Twins!

Drive For Education

Thank you to Mrs. Hayes who wrote and was awarded a grant from Berlin City to buy books for our school. We are going to use the money to purchase multiple copies of "just-right-books" to use during reading workshop.