This week a great deal of our learning centered around our current unit in Reader's Workshop: "Old Favorites". I began the unit by reading an old favorite that I knew would be a bit less familiar to the kids but it really drives the idea of "knowing a book by heart" home- Mrs. Wishy Washy. Ms. Jane's next two lessons in which she read The Carrot Seed and Harry the Dirty Dog, linked back to the idea of looking at words and pictures as you read while also emphasizing sounding like the characters and being able to identify the beginning, middle and end of a story so you can retell it to a friend. I'm sure you saw the Mrs. Wishy Washy strip come home in folders and below you can see us dramatizing The Carrot Seed with popcicle stick puppets and one student's work about Harry the Dirty Dog.
The class has been doing a great job with independent literacy choices when their "have to's" are finished. Below you can see a student proudly recording the words she made out of magnet letters
On Thursday we started a new literacy routine of making mail. Sending a letter is an authentic reason to write and receiving a piece of mail feels like getting a present! Below you can see two friends reading their mail to one another.
On Friday we were lucky enough to be read to by a student/athlete from SBHS. He was a great role model and inspired our class to keep working hard on reading!
It's important to know that our class plays as hard as they work! And here's a look at the happiness brought by the first snowfall. Snow angels and snow butterflies???
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