Friends Depend on Each Other

This week our essential question in reading was "How do friends depend on each other?"

We read several stories about how friends help each other out.  One of the stories we read was about Lucy, a new kid, who meets a girl named Jade.  Jade helps Lucy adjust to the new school by introducing the class to Lucy's pet parrot, George.

The class came together at the end of the week to make posters about friends depending on each other.  They worked together in a group and drew some pictures of themselves and wrote how they depended on a friend.

In math, we have been practicing facts and number sense.  We have been counting by 5s and 10s. We practiced math using math boxes and played some fun math games.  

We finished up our first unit in social studies about communities.  You will see the first assessment come home.  Students had to identify a place to live, work and play.  In science, we practiced balancing several different objects using what we know about counterweights.

The students are practicing writing narratives.  This week the topic was "My First Day of School."  I found it interesting that a lot of the students were impressed by the fact that when they came into the classroom for the first time, there was a name tag on their desk. Next week, we will be focusing on adding more details to their writing.

I taught the students some fun attention grabbers this week.  These are fun sayings that I say when I want to get the students' attention. They are still working on remembering them. You could probably try them at home for fun too.

Go Bananas this weekend!!