Our morning began with spelling activities and a review of our homework.  Today’s Word Wall Wizard Word was:  favorite.  After working in our literacy groups at centers, the carpet, and class book, we began reading our story:  The Nights of the Pufflings.  They are such cute little birds!  We can’t wait to read about how […]

After a new chapter in spelling, we worked on spelling activities.  A picture walk through our new story about pufflings sparked our interests.  We can’t wait to read the story this week.  A discussion about Native American culture helped us understand more about Native American beliefs.  We read a beautiful book with a Native American […]

Our spelling activities started our day as usual.  Our Word Wizard Word of the Day today was “exciting.”  After taking our spelling and reading selection tests, we worked on our handwriting and Turkey Tales.  You should see how great they turned out!  Our room is filled with turkeys!  We really were very creative with our […]

After spelling activities, we checked our homework and worked in our literacy groups.  The Toothy Walrus story that we worked on in our reading group at the rug ties in so perfectly with our discussions of icebergs and the Titanic.  Thank goodness it isn’t quite so cold here in PA!  After taking our grammar test, […]

After spelling activities this morning, we went to library.  It was so great to be back at the library checking out books.  Some of us checked out books about the Titanic.  We finished our reading textbook story about icebergs today.  Looking through some of the books from the library on the Titanic was exciting.  They […]