Dear Families,
Wow! It is hard to believe the month of October will be here when we return to school on Monday! The first month of school has been amazing. We have learned so much about your children and feel we have truly become a classroom family!
The last two weeks have been extremely productive in Room 13! We have begun to immerse ourselves in our first unit of Writing Workshop. We read books by several authors in order to inspire our own writing. Some books we read were: Let’s Do Nothing by Tony Fucile and Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe. We also wrote several entries in our writing notebooks this week. We thought about special people, places, and “nothing” moments in our lives. It was wonderful to see the children working hard and sharing their experiences with the class. This has helped enhance our classroom connection. Room 13 LOVES writing!
We also started our weekly shared reading. Each week, the children will be studying and analyzing one text per week. Each day, we will be focusing in on a different reading skill with that same text to dig deeper into that text. This week, we read “How to Make Lemonade.” Ask your child about this recipe and try making some “brisk” lemonade this weekend!
As you know, this week marked the culmination of our first math unit in the new program, Math in Focus. We are thrilled with all the hard work the children put into their math skills and feel we are on the right track for a great year in math. Next up….addition!
Finally, we were able to visit the Science Lab as a class. In Science, the children participated in an interesting experiment about the amount of sugar in different cereals. They were asked to identify which cereal had the most sugar and which cereal had the least sugar. The class did a great job using the Double Pan Balance Scale, and we look forward to many more science experiments this year!
Team Marsen
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