This is a quick reminder that we will be on the risers for the PTA meeting Monday night!  We are asking that the children be in the Blue Pod by 5:45. 

We also celebrated Read Across America Day.  We had a guest reader this morning, read lots of Dr. Suess books and explored the properties of Oobleck!  I will have pictures on the web page as soon as possible. 

Morning Meeting

These are the Daily Data questions that we answered this week.

*What kind of pet do you have?

*Do you take a bath in the morning or at night?

*What do you sleep with at night?

*Do you like to take a bath or shower? 

Shared Journal

Miss Smith started leading the negotiations for Shared Journals this week.  This gave me an opportunity to sit back, listen and observe.  I can’t tell you how impressed I am at the thoughts of the children.  February journals will be coming home in the next few days!  I know that you will enjoy reading them!!! 

Theme

We are finishing up our research on elephants.  The children are becoming elephant experts! They know all about life in an elephant herd.  Do you know how elephants keep cool?  Ask your child.  I bet they can tell you. This week also, we wrote our construction plan and began building our Asian elephant.  Next week, we will add our elephant facts to our circus books! 

Shared Reading

This week, we worked on comprehension strategies as we read our books for Shared Reading.  We discussed the titles and what clues can be gathered from the titles and the pictures.  We talked about the strategies that good readers use when reading and the questions that they ask themselves.  We will continue to work on comprehension strategies and vocabulary in upcoming weeks.

We read the following books this week:

The Playground in the Yard:  As we read this book, we reasoned and predicted where a family might locate a new swing set and jungle gym that they had bought.

My Very Own Letter:  We made a web of all the things that we could do at writing center.  Some of the ideas were write songs, letters, e-mails, make daily data questions, webs and books.

The Napping House:  We did a vocabulary lesson on the word dozing.  The children used context clues to discover the meaning of the word dozing.  We added this word to our classroom dictionary.

Silly Sally

Quick as a Cricket

Bartholomew and the Oobleck

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Mr. Brown can Moo!  Can You?

and many more!! 

Important Dates and Notes:

Thanks to everyone who sent in band-aids and supplies! 

I have made several updates to our class web page.  Please check it out! 

Monday, March 5 – PTA meeting at 6:00  Orange Pod performs!!!

March 12-15:  Spring Bookfair

Wednesday, March 14:  Family Lunch

Friday, March 16:  No School-Teacher work day

March 26-30:  No School-Spring Break

Oobleck!!!!