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Library Day with Mrs. Bryce is on Tuesday! Please remember to pack your child's library book!!!
Spring Art Project
This week we did a fun and beautiful art project! The kids watched a young first grader teach how to draw three types of flowers (tulips, daffodils and daisies). We practice drawing them too, then we made them colorful with water color paints! The paintings are stunning! I love seeing the special touches each child added to make the flowers their own. Make sure you check them out the next time you visit!
Readers' and Writers' Workshop
We are moving right along in our study of nonfiction texts. This week, we worked on reading nonfiction texts with our reading partner. We asked ourselves what the author was trying to teach us, and then identified supporting details we learned in the text. Students retold their stories to a partner across their five fingers. We loved reading our national geographic magazine and book shopping for new nonfiction texts!
In writing, we took time to talk about writing stamina. Students used sticky notes to mark a place in their own books that they wanted to write to during our writers' workshop. This helped students write more for longer. We discussed focus and what to do if we get tired, distracted or get WRITERS' BLOCK!!!
Science
Students did more investigating this week! We made predictions about what would happen to different foods if they were frozen. We wrote and drew about the foods' observable attributes before they were frozen and after! We had lots of great discussion and added onto our summary table. We will continue to explore what happens to food when it is heated and work on writing a class report using a claim and evidence from our investigations!
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