Photos of Recent Learning

Here are some photos of things the students have been learning over the past couple of weeks:

Reading Skill of the Month = Summarize - Welcome to Story Street, where students list the characters, setting, problem, and solution (see next picture too)

Measuring in inches and feet - we outlined a few of  the students and measured them with rulers. After they finished their buddy work, they decorated the people.

Economics lessons in Social Studies. So far we've learned about goods, services, producers, and consumers. In this activity students pretended to own a restaurant and listed food they would sell (producers) and what they needed to buy for their restaurant (consumers).

We Are Special

This week we have been focusing on learning about characters (people and animals) in our stories. On Tuesday, we read a touching story about the Wemmicks (wooden people), who gave each other gold stars and gray stickers, and Eli (the wood carver). We talked about being beautiful on the inside and not letting bad things that other people say bother us. The take home message for the students is that they are all special. So after our story, each student made a sign for him/herself to take home that said "I Am Special!"

You Are Special by Max Lucado

We will continue working to identify characters and also the setting (where the story takes place) of stories we read. It would be helpful if you could help your student identify these story elements when she/he reads at home each night. (Thank you!)