Painted Ladies

cience: Students finished coloring, collating, and assembling their "How to Plant a Seed" books. This six-step guide is an overview of the process we used on Friday and we are continuing to survey our seeds for any signs of growth.

Writer's Workshop: Today we created a chart of "What Writers Write About" to give us ideas in our narrative writing. Some of the excellent ideas that we came up with were families, friends, school, holidays, parties, injuries, trips, vacations, and insects. After brainstorming students did independent writing and most were able to complete several sentences about the topic of their choice.

Library: Today Mrs. Williams read us two fictional stories about dogs and students checked out new library books. Kudos to those who are reminding students to bring back their library bags so that they can check out fresh books. Today we had 16 of 17 students who were able to check out new literature.

Science: We were introduced to our newest classroom friends - The Painted Ladies. In addition to the silkworms, we are now going to be raising and observing these caterpillars that will become Painted Lady Butterflies. In the coming week we will be discussing similarities and differences between the two groups of insects.

Rosie's Walk: Today we put finishing touches on our Rosie's Walk book. They were bound this weekend and now students have painted the final page (Across the Yard),created their characters and afixed them to popsicle sticks, and created a holder for them on the back cover.