Weekly News (Jan. 16-20)

Here is what we've been up to this week!

All About Me
This week we loved learning all about Jaala and some of her favorite things! We learned that Jaala is very creative and she loves to do crafts. She also enjoys doing ballet and gymnastics, and she is a big fan of the Disney characters! She loves fashion and music, especially artists Adele, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. Her favorite foods are pizza and tacos, and she loves spending time with her family!

The Day the Crayons Quit...a class favorite! A big thank
you to Jaala's mom for coming in to read it to us!

Math
We revisited the concept of weight this week and used the pan balance to determine which objects were heavier or lighter. We also learned a new math game this week called the Train Game, which reinforced one-to-one matching while counting as well as the concepts of addition and subtraction. The goal of the game is to build a train with 12 train cars. After rolling a die, students have to add or subtract train cars depending on what they roll until the train is 12 cars long. They LOVED playing the online version of this game on the Everyday Math website! We also practiced writing the number 6 in our handwriting books.

Literacy
Reading and Writing Workshop
We continued to learn about strategies that good readers use when reading fiction. We learned that readers are able to describe a character's physical traits (what we see on the outside) and personality (who they are on the inside) by studying the illustrations and paying close attention to what the characters say and do. We also practiced "stepping into a character's shoes" and making inferences about what the different characters might say or do.

We followed up our reading workshop lessons with a writing activity that encouraged the students to use speech bubbles in their picture to help us understand what Goldilocks may have been thinking or saying as she moved about the bears' house.

Social Studies

This week we learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and read a story called The Crayon Box That Talked about a box of crayons that is not getting along because the colors do not like each other. In the end, the crayons realize that when they work together and appreciate each other's differences, they can make a beautiful picture. 

Hope everyone enjoys the long weekend!
See you next week!