End-of-Week Update, 9/12

What we've been up to:
Our first week (and a half) of school have been awesome!  We met Mrs. Adams, learned about Dory's important motto "JUST KEEP SWIMMING!!" and we've gotten to work on a lot of things including math, reading, writing, and science!

In math, we've been mastering (WW word!!!) our multiplication facts and learning about properties of multiplication like the Identity, Commutative, Zero, and Distributive Properties!  We are playing new games and working hard to get used to our new EnVisions math materials.  Check out some photos of us completing a fun "Math About Me" activity on the very first day of school!

In reading, we've been focusing on choosing / reading "just right" books with Mrs. Adams.  We have started to choose books for our book bags and using the 5-finger test to make sure they're "just right."  We also worked with friends from Miss Farrell's class to read some fun read alouds of fairy tales!  We learned how point-of-view makes a big difference when telling a story.  Third person point of view is when a narrator (not one of the characters) tells the story and first person point of view is when one of the characters in the story tells what's happening using "I," "me," and "my."  We read The Three Little Pigs in both first and third person points of view and we wrote our own first person point of view version of Sleeping Beauty in cooperative "mixed up" groups with our friends in Room 21 after hearing the third person version!  It was fun to tell the story from the evil fairy's, the prince's, or Sleeping Beauty's point of view.  Check out some videos and photos of our cooperative group work below!

In writing, we have been showing off all we know about the writing process and how to tell a good story that captivates our readers!  We kicked things off with using photos to share some of our summer stories.  Stay tuned for more narrative writing in the next few weeks!

In science, we started our first unit - weather!  So far, we've shared our own interesting (or scary) weather stories and learned a bit about the water cycle.  Soon, we'll be building terrariums to help us observe the water cycle up close - we can't wait!

We also started Wordly Wise - a vocabulary word study packet that we'll complete for homework each night.  We learned 15 words this week including "master," "develop," and "lack."  We've already been spotting WW words in our books this week!

We have had all 5 specials (some of them twice!) and we've been hard at work already!  We have music homework due Wednesday and are looking forward to learning the recorder this year.  We created "earthworks" in Art on Friday out of natural materials.  Even though they're temporary, Mrs. Hess took photos to capture our creativity!  Check them out below!

Stay tuned for next week's update!