The Week of Feb. 6

 Upcoming Events 

Feb 13- PBIS School Wide Celebration / Tape a Teacher & Student to the Wall

LOTS OF PICTURES TO COME :)

Feb 14- Classroom Valentine's Day Celebration

This year we will have a small classroom celebration in honor of Valentine's Day. If you would like to bring a treat please click on the link below to sign up. Please let me know if you are unable to view the google doc.

First and Second Grade Valentine's Day Party

Feb 16- StarBase Rocket Launch  @ 1:15-2:15

Feb. 22 -Early Release Day @ 11:30

Feb. 24 -Cultures Around the World Marketplace T and D TBD

100th Day of School 

On Thursday, we celebrated the 100th day of school! Together we grouped our 100s collections in many different ways. Students enjoyed sharing their special collections. Here are some pictures from our celebration. 

Readers' Workshop

In reading, the first and second graders are finishing up our unit on nonfiction texts. This week we worked identifying an author's purpose. Together we read several nonfiction / fiction books and sorted them into groups. We highlighted parts of the text that support the author's purpose. Later in the week, we practiced  using the QAR strategy for answering questions about a text. Students sorted questions into the different groups. 

Cultures Around the World 

We are very excited to begin our Social Studies project: Cultures Around the World. We gathered with the K and 2-3 classrooms to choose the cultures we wanted to learn more about, and began exploring the resources we will use. Students met in their small groups and planned out their work for our next session. 

Students will research their cultures, record their learning, create a poster showing important facts, and create a craft to sell at our Culture's Around the World Marketplace. The WES community will be invited to visit our Culture's Around the World Marketplace the week of Feb. 20th we will let you know our final date ASAP. 

Writers' Workshop

In writing, we chose our favorite nonfiction piece of writing to edit and revise. Students read their piece to make sure words and sentences sounded right and looked right. We added any finishing touches to our books. Next week, we will begin using a cool app called Typing.com. It will help us to navigate the keyboard and type. I will be working with students in small groups to revise and edit their books, and produce a fancy copy using google docs and images. 

Here we are selecting our favorite pieces and rereading them.