Monday, February 8th

What a great day we had in C-7 and C-8! We started our day with our morning meeting in Spanish. We helped write morning message, discussed the calender, and completed our math routines. Today's question of the day was How do you feel when it's time to go to sleep. We learned that a greater amount of people feel tired when it is time to go to bed.

After our morning meeting, we had reading workshop. Some students read the Poem Winter pleasures in English and some students read the poem Los Tres Gatitos in Spanish. We talked about the mental images that the words in the poem broght to our minds and completed some multiple choice questions about the poem. We then completed our daily 5 routines and met in small groups to learn our new word study patterns. After reading workshop, we worked on our class biographies. The boys are writing a biography about Mrs. Holtz (the PE teacher) and the girls are working on a biography about Mrs. Zodarecky. Today both groups worked on writing "general" questions that they can ask when they interview these important people in the school. Both groups learned that general questions require more than a yes or no answer.

After lunch we read a few Flat Stanley letters that arrrived. Ask your child if their Flat Stanley has arrived back in Rochester yet! We also read a great book called Rhyming Dust Bunnies. Ask your child to tell you all about it! After our read aloud, we had mathematics. The red rhinos worked on reading horizontal and verticle bar graphs. The green gators worked on representing numbers using words and stick and circles. TOMORROW WILL BE THE LAST DAY WE WILL COLLECT MONEY FOR HAITI!!