Home Stretch!

I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation, whether you relaxed at home or got to get away for a bit. April vacation comes at the perfect time to help rejuvenate us for the homestretch! It's hard to believe that so much of the year has passed, but (and this is a BIG but), there's still so much to do! This week we were visited by Mrs. Goldstein again. She's helping us learn about our smarts or the unique things that we are good at and that make us who we are. We're also continuing our work with shapes, focusing on triangles and quadrilaterals. In writer's workshop we are wrapping up our teaching chapter books. The children will be sharing these with you soon! Finally, we celebrated poetry week by enjoying poems read to us by staff members during  poetry breaks!

Learning about our Smarts

Mrs. Goldstein reading us a story

Showing us how to fill our "brains" with all of the different kinds of  smarts we came up with

Working on filling in our own brains with smarts! Ask your  child what kind of smarts he or she has...

Learning about Traingles and Quadrilaterals

Sorting polygons (all simple shapes with straight sides)

Making shapes on the Geoboard with rubber bands and on dot paper

Editing our Teaching Books

We practiced reading and rereading and even rereading our stories to make them ready for our readers!

Poetry Break!

Reader's Theater

This group read a story called Snip!Snap! about an elephant whose truck kept getting in the way of the other animals in the jungle until one day when there was a fire in the jungle and Elephant and her long trunk came to the rescue. They did an awesome job!