Today was our Grandparents' Day luncheon. What an exciting, great day! Tiger Team was so excited to have our grandparents and parents visit our school and see us as 1st graders. Thank you for being so patient with so many people in our cafeteria and for making this day so great! Thank you for also walking me back to my classroom to see all of the exciting things in our room.
So far we have been talking about being a good, independent reader. This week, we have been talking about being great writers. We have been going through the writing process of what a good writer does to get started on a new piece.
We made a list of ideas we could write about whenever we get "stuck" and we copied this list onto a fun "BINGO" writing sheet to glue inside the covers of our draft books. Now I will always be able to think of something to write about. Mrs. Maggart says a great place to get ideas for our writing is from books we read. Mrs. Maggart reads us a story every morning and this week we read a silly story about being late to school, a story about a teacher that was a dragon, and a story about a frog and a toad who could talk and liked to tell each other spooky stories. We could write stories like these too!
We added "our frogs" to our list of things we could write about. But we needed to name our frogs first! We each made a list of 3 names we would like. Then we shared our lists and made a giant list of our favorite names. We voted on the top three. And our frogs' new names? We have Coco, Thunder, and Lily.
This week we talked about families and what makes our families so special to us. We read a lot of great books about families. We even made our family trees!
We finished our soil study this week. Thank you to Madi for bringing in two different types of soil for us to observe like scientists. We discovered things we were right about, things that were a misconception, and even a lot of new information about soil. Wow! Being a scientist is fun!
Now for a great weekend and then back to school on Monday!
Love,
