Photos and News From Our Classroom!

Math Class:  We have been continuing to learn about place value by building and writing two- and three-digit numbers.  We have also practiced using efficient strategies to solve addition problems.  Students have done an amazing job sharing their math thinking with their classmates!

Choice Time and Class Celebrations:  We love our daily snack and choice time!  It is a fun time to chat, play games, and build with Legos and construction straws!  When we fill our classroom "tree", we often vote for extra indoor and outdoor choice times.  This week, however, we chose to have our celebration be a Comfy Cozy Day with stuffed animals.  It was so fun to meet our new stuffed animal friends during our morning meeting greeting! 

Literacy/Writing:  Last week, Mrs. Christy visited our class and taught us how to create Heart Maps about the people, places, things, and events that our important to us.  We had an opportunity to share  our Heart Maps during a "gallery walk", which gave some of us new ideas about things that we want to add to our own maps.  We will keep our Heart Maps in our writing folders to help us when we are looking for new topics for our "small moment" narratives.  This week, we will continue to learn how to stretch out our narrative stories to include meaningful details.

Read Aloud with Ms. Lyford:  On Tuesday, Ms. Lyford visited our class to read the book, Sixth Violin, by Hana Hashimoto.  This story connects with our classroom and PBIS group discussions about growth mindset.  We have been talking about how it can take time to learn something new and that there may be challenges along the way, but that having a growth mindset allows us to set and reach goals for new learning. 

Meeting with our class buddies!  On Thursday, we had our first meeting with our 5th and 6th grade buddies from Mrs. Shedd's classroom.  We started off with some partner reading time and then went outside to play.  What a fun way to end the school week!