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 Smile... It's Picture Day! 

We looked so great on Tuesday and Friday
for our school pictures! 

Wow! We are getting so much done in school!  We have learned about our classroom library and how it is organized. We discussed GENRE and what categories books fall in - either fiction or nonfiction. We chose books and shared the genre of our books. Then Cohort B (now known as the Bears) cut up a book order and sorted books by category!  They were GENRE GENIUSES! 

In writing workshop, we filled out our HEARTS and what writing topics were near and dear to our hearts. These included people, places we have visited, and memories we want to share.

 

    

Then, after that, we started to write!  We learned about indenting our first sentence in a paragraph and how to include feelings in our writing. 

Word Work

We have been working on sorting words and listening to the sounds they make. This week are looking at words that make the /oi/ sound using "oi" and "oy". We came up words like annoying, spoil, enjoy, boys, and toys. 

Then we did an activity called "Calling all Words" where we used the numbers that correspond to a phone to figure out how much each /oi/ word was worth. 

MATH.... Guess what? We are starting MULTIPLICATION! 

Yes, we are!  We started on Wednesday with our Zoom lesson on "Things that Come in Groups." Then we did an activity called Circles and Stars. We roll a die to determine our number of groups and again to find our how many in each group. 

We learned about writing a repeated addition sentence and a multiplication equation. 

Repeated addition for the example above is:

   6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 24 

The multiplication equation is 4 X 6 = 24 or four groups of six

ARTIFACT BAGS! 

Thanks to all the students for sharing their artifact bags. Everyone remembered theirs and we shared them during snack. We learned a lot about our classmates by the items they shared.