A...is for Animal

The Alphabet Countdown in on!!! We loved bringing in our stuffed animals from home. Here are some things we did with our animals.

 Reading To Our Stuffed Animals

Measuring Our Animals

Measuring and Recording

Labeling Our Animals

This Week in KC

The kids LOVED sharing their stories on Friday morning. 

 Class News

Next week we will begin the Alphabet Countdown.
I will send home information on Monday.
The kids are very excited!!! 

Snails

We  made diagrams of Snails in our science notebooks.

Kevin Henkes

We have been reading Kevin Henkes Stories. We love his books. Luke is writing a book about Kevin Henkes at writing workshop time. Here is his first page of his book.

When you are listening to a Kevin Henkes book I want to read more.

Characters from his Books
Bubble Thinking Map
 

 Habitat Posters 

Students worked in groups making Habitat Thinking maps. Below you can see students sharing their work with the class.

 The Rainforest

 Forest

 Desert

Polar Region 

Wet Lands

Pond

Writing Workshop
We are learning about persuasive writing.  
These are our pre-assessment letters to this unit of study.
  Write a letter to Mr. Ieong asking for a class pet.
Do you think we have convinced him? 

Snails

Today we added snails to our class tanks. 

We are reading nonfiction books about snails.  

Go Bruins!

At choice time lots of kids made Bruins posters! 

 We hope they win tonight!!!

This Week In KC

Just a reminder we have an Author's Share on Friday morning at 8:30. We are excited to share our work!

Favorite Book
What was the favorite book this week in KC?
Tell someone in you family what book you voted for and why!

Alliteration

 We made a class alphabet book starting sentences with the same sound. Some of our sentences are super silly! 
 

Reading Response

We read the book Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems.

We are working on responding to books.
Click on the arrow below. 

Nature Walk Today

Thanks to all the parent helpers on the nature walk today.

Science Investigation Question: Is our schoolyard a habitat?

Habitat

A place where an animal normally lives provides

food, water, shelter and space that a species need in order to survive.

Grass Investigation

We could not believe how much the grass grew over the weekend! 

Books Read About Habitats

What did we add to our classroom habitat?

 We recorded in our Science Notebooks