News for January 26th-30th

Monday was an exciting day because a new student joined our classroom community! Now we have 19 students in Room 203! In Science we continued learning about the Respiratory System. The parts that make up the Respiratory System are: nose/mouth, trachea (windpipe), bronchial tubes, lungs, alveoli, and diaphragm. In P.E. we are learning how to play volleyball. In Reader’s Workshop we worked on finding common nouns and proper nouns in our books. In Writer’s Workshop we graduated from personal narrative stories, and we’re moving on to ESSAYS! We learned that authors grow their essay ideas by listening, observing, noticing, studying, and overhearing! Then writer’s say, “This makes me think of…” We practiced this strategy by listening to a song from the movie August Rush. We listened for different sounds and wrote a NEW IDEA that the sound made us think of! In Math this week we practiced multiplication/division fact families. We’re still reviewing the 0s, 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s. Next week we will be starting our timed multiplication quizzes! On Tuesday for flexible reading groups, we traveled to Mrs. Karas’ room to learn about story elements. On Thursday we had flexible math groups and learned different things about measurement. Wednesday was a 1/2 day and next week Wednesday it is a Teacher Institute Day so we don’t have school! Tomorrow is Ms. Henkel’s birthday! In Cursive this week, we learned the letters f, and s. This weekend, Speedy is staying at Kennedy! Have a nice weekend! See you in February!