Monday, December 1st

We had a busy first day back from our Thanksgiving break. We got right to work on our response journals, and most of our friends had a lot to share with Mrs. Helfer and Senorita Wesley about what they did over the break. During Writer's Workshop, the Red Rhinos worked on asking our friends, What is the most important part of my story? We then worked on how we could tell our story focusing on that one important part. The green gators worked on taking a small moment and telling all of the parts of our small moments. During our Reading Workshop time, we read our new poems about Snow Balls and Winter, and drew illustrations in our poetry notebooks to go along with our poems. We are continuing to work on reading to someone and listening to reading, and what that looks like and sounds like during Reader's Workshop. This afternoon, we did a Spanish read aloud Oso cafe Oso cafe, que ves ahi, and practiced the different animals and colors in spanish. We learned two new animals: fish (pez) and sheep (oveja) in Spanish. During math, the green gators practiced using the number 5, and used different amounts of cats and dogs to show the number 5. The red rhinos tried to create number sentences and number combinations up to ten. We also learned that when we use number sentences, one addend was bigger and one addend was smaller. In science, the green apples worked on getting their mobiles to balance, while the red apples drew pictures of things that our families do and wrote a sentence about what our families do together.