We had a spelling pre-test. This week’s words have blends at the end. We discovered that some of them can be at the beginning of words too. Ms. Stern gave us clues. We had to spell the word that we thought it was on the person in front of us. Stephen thought it tickled so badly!
The children in the class helped Ms. Stern with her journal writing. She had lots of great ideas but only 1 period at the very end. Everyone helped her figure out where complete thoughts and ideas ended and marked them with a period at each spot. Then we made sure that each sentence began with an upper case letter.
In music, we made scarves dance to music from the Nutcracker. We made figure eights. They are also called sideways eights or infinity symbols. At the end of the song, we threw them up in the air and caught them. Arlo really liked when we shook the scarves. Lauria liked when we threw them up and caught them.
Ms. Stern read a book called Punctuation Takes a Vacation. It’s about a class where all different types of punctuation are sent away to Take a Break Lake. While they are gone, they write letters to the children in their class. The class discovers how important punctuation is. During Writer’s Workshop, we were trying really hard not to let punctuation escape our classroom! We looked our work over in search of spots where we forgot them.
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We just wanted to say what a great weekend we had with Jimmy. He had fun hanging out with our turtle Ace, although we could not put them together in the same tank. Thanks for letting him spend time with us.
Dylan Mundy & family
Dylan,
Thank you for taking such good care of him! We read a book at the beginning of the year all about turtles and tortoises. Besides Ace living in water and Jimmy not being able to swim, could you tell us about some of the things that were the same and some of the things that were different with them?
Has anyone else ever had a pet turtle or tortoise before?
Love,
Ms. Stern
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