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During our Brain Breaks, we have been writing on Post-Its what we KNOW about Fairy Tales – Oh, and of course, we’re reading lots of fairy tales, too! This last week we watched a short Cinderella video, read The Rough Face Girl, and then drew both of our main characters. We then used a thinking …

We have been talking about characters in books. We brainstormed and wrote three words to describe Spookely, and then sorted our letters by long sticks, short sticks, and no sticks. We then sorted letter shapes in our Word Work Journals. Next stop: describing ourselves (as we will be characters in our own book: All About …

We have finished our Christopher Columbus writing! Our Christophers are hanging proudly in our room!

Happy Sunday! Here are the books that our groups will be reading during their seat work. With our books, we are going to practice telling what happened in the beginning, middle, and end, as well as various word work activities throughout the week. Each group’s phonics and grammar activities will correlate with their book, yet …

During our bathroom and drink breaks after recess, we have been reading and talking about Magic Tree House books. We are reading Midnight on the Moon in the series now. We love learning about SPACE! We talked about the word gravity today and watched this cool video. WATER IN SPACE

This week we are reading fiction stories and focusing on the character traits of the characters in our books. This week, we’re going to put an extra focus on how we would describe how the characters in books LOOK. Next week we’ll take a peek at how characters in stories FEEL on the inside. SEAT …

We love Jack and Annie Magic Tree House books! We are now visiting the Ice Age in book #8. Click on the picture to visit Jack and Annie’s new website!

We start Reading off every day by getting out our very own short story and packet. These short stories and packets are leveled by each students’ reading ability. The packets include word work, writing, comprehension strategies, and a test to go along with the short story. We listen to our directions for the packet on …