My first week back to work is officially over and we are off to a good start! Ms. Vocatura was in with us on Monday to help our class through the transition. It's great to see all the progress the class has made in the past three months! The students worked well this week though they have been very social which I'm assuming is due to the transition. My hope is that by next week the class will be used to having me back at the helm and things will calm down. In literacy this week we read a non-fiction selection about how animals bathe. Students worked on comparing and contrasting and used adjectives to describe the animals. We connected our literacy theme to our new science unit on living and non-living things during a classroom discussion. Next week we will be exploring the relationship between cause and effect as we continue to read about animals. We will also continue to work with r-controlled vowels in spelling.
Information on the Read to Ride program went home this week. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to work on their reading and provides great incentive. Please remind your child to bring in their Read to Ride reading logs weekly to be entered into the contest to win the bike. Reading logs turned in one week late will not be accepted. Remember the more consistent your child is with their reading log the more chances he/she will have at winning the bike. (These reading logs are separate and in addition to our class weekly reading requirement) I hope everyone has a restful and enjoyable weekend! See you next week :-)
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