Hello! It was so great to meet so many of you parents at parent-teacher conferences on Monday and I’m so happy to hear that so many of you look at this blog ☺
This has been quite a week! Despite the long weekend, your kids were hard at work from the day they returned to school. All of Tuesday and Wednesday mornings were taken up by our final DC-BAS test before the CAS in April. Although such testing is never fun, the kids worked through it and did very well.
In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, on Wednesday we began our poetry unit in writing workshop. So far we have learned about (and written our own!) acrostics, poems using alliteration, learned about palindromes, and we are in the process of working on poems using onomatopoeias! At the end of the unit, each student is going to “publish” their own book of poetry, which will highlight what we have learned throughout the unit. After celebrating our books in the classroom they will be sent home for you to enjoy with your child!
In Social Studies we learned about the Mayflower Compact and how its purpose was essentially to solve a problem for the Pilgrims (there was no government in their new colony). We then applied these problem-solving skills to a problem in our own classroom: talking while others are talking. After getting into groups to brainstorm solutions to this problem, each group presented their ideas to the class. We then voted on a solution and signed our own CotiSweets Compact! If you’re in our classroom, take a look at it—it’s hanging on the wall with all of our signatures at the bottom.
That’s it for now,
Have a great weekend,
Ms. Goldy
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