Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

This week we learned about Martin Luther King Jr. with our Let's Find Out magazine.  We read about him and then made connections by creating our own dreams for the world.  The students wrote about their dream and attached them to their Martin Luther King Junior portraits.

In Readers Workshop, we have been learning how letters help us to read.  These strategies help us to figure out new words.  When you are reading with your child, you can model how to do this by pretending you are stuck on a word.  Then think aloud about how you are going to figure out the work.  We always reread the sentence after to make it sound smooth.


In Math, we are continuing to work on comparing numbers.  Students have gotten very good at deciding which is greater than or less than with objects and pictures.  Now we are trying with numerals.

Some of the books we have read this week are:
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