Mr. Harper even signed a special copy given to me by a generous parent. Thank you!! During the assembly, Mr. Harper showed the students how to draw one of his beloved characters, a turkey. Here are a couple of our drawings:
He also showed them how to draw the main character of the book we will be reading together as a school. Can you guess what it is?
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Did you guess a hamster? Well then you would have been correct. The book that we will be reading together as a school is The World According to Humphrey.
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You should have received a letter home telling about the book. We will be doing fun activities with our book buddies from 6-Gloeckner throughout the year.
So this week in reading our big question was "How can a pet be an important friend?" We read stories about special pets. We listened to a story about a police officer and how her special partner, Echo was missing. We also read a story about a boy who went to the animal shelter to get a dog. That dog became a special friend to him. Our favorite story of the week was "Not Norman." Norman was a goldfish and a boy got him as a present for his birthday. The boy did not think in the beginning of the story that having a goldfish for a pet was fun. By the end of the story, the boy realizes that he has a special pet and friend in Norman.
This week we started writing personal narratives. I used the analogy of a watermelon and a seed to talk about writing a small moment. We want to focus on a seed topic, just a small portion of time. We talked about how the story should be written the same way you would tell the story. We also practiced uses a "catchy lead" so that we can HOOK the reader.
You should have seen and signed the first end of unit test in math. The first test was basically all review. We have started focusing more on addition facts this week. We practiced writing and reading addition number stories. We played several math games to help us get "fact power".
In social studies, we are still talking about communities. We began to look and the three kinds of communities: urban, suburban and rural. We saw photos of the different communities and talked about the characteristics as well. This week in science we had a lot of fun. We made designs for tops and then spun them to see what would happen. We also made zoomers. Some of us had trouble getting our zoomers to work...but we still had fun.
Today we started our Footprints program. You will be receiving a letter home to explain the program. The children have a good time learning about the program especially since there are puppets involved.
We also had a guidance lesson today with Mrs. Fletcher. She came in to talk about respect and how next week is "Week of Repect." We have special things planned for this week. Click here to see what to do each day.
