After working on a new chapter in spelling, we finished up our spiders. They look incredible hanging up in our room! Our Unit 1 Reading Assessment had us reading several selections and answering questions about them. We will begin Part II tomorrow. Reviewing the four types of sentences and handwriting had […]

After spelling activities, we worked in our literacy groups. You should see how nice our All About Me book has turned out! We’ll be bringing it home to share shortly. After taking our spelling and selection tests, we practiced handwriting and worked on our “Mary as Role Model” pieces. In math, […]

After spelling activities, we reviewed our homework and met with literacy groups.  Exploring character in the short story Babysitting Workout has helped us realize how some characters in books are just like us.  In grammar, we learned about singular and plural nouns.  They were easy to pick out.  Allie began to play much better at […]

After spelling activities this morning, we checked our homework and began working on our writing skills.  Today, we learned about the importance of beginning and ending sentences when writing a paragraph.  After completing a graphic organizer on the board about fire safety tips, we composed our own original paragraphs.  Zuckerman’s farm is filled with all […]

Today started out with our spelling activities.  We reviewed our homework and worked with the long i sound found in words like “might” and “fly.”  After reading some of Allie’s Basketball Dream, we filled out a character chart about Allie.  Adjectives like “confident,” “athletic,” and “proud” described Allie.  Learning about nouns was fun!  We used […]