Vision Screening

Jan Brett Books read today: Berlioz the Bear and Armadillo Rodeo

Writer's Workshop: As a follow-up to Friday's lesson about animals, students brainstormed animals that we could stretch out and spell. Together, we spelled "rabbit", "hedgehog" and "bear". Students were asked to independently brainstorm animals and attempt to sound out at least their beginning and ending sounds.

Science: To begin our unit on penguins, we made a chart of things with think we know about penguins. Ideas included "Penguins are birds", "They hold their eggs on their feet" and "They waddle on the ice." It seems like students have a pretty wide base of knowledge with which to start this unit.

Vision Screening: Students met with several school nurses to have their vision screened.

Library: Mrs. Williams read the class The Giant Hug, a touching story about a young pig who wanted to send his grandmother pig a hug through the mail. In a series of hugs, ranging from the post office workers, to the mail sorter, to the truck driver, etc. the hug finally arrives at its' destination.

Math: Today in math we did a practice for our math assessment that we will be completing tomorrow. Students would grab a handful of linking cubes and record on grid paper how many they had. These will then be ordered from shortest to longest to assess how students are grasping measurement and comparisons.