Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

This week in writing we wrote a How-To piece.  The topic was "How to build a snowman?"  The students drafted a "sloppy copy" of their how-to.  Then they worked in pairs to read over and try to act out the other's process to see if all of the details were included in the writing.  To make it even more fun, we created a "special" snowman to display them.

We are back to our Wonders program in reading this week with the start of a new unit.  The unit overview is "What have you learned about the world that surprises you?"  This week we learned about Isaac Newton, gravity, friction and other Earth's forces.  We also focused on figuring out the author's purpose.  We learned that an author write for three reasons: to persuade, to entertain or to inform.  

In math, we finished up adding two-digit addition and will begin next week with subtraction.  Look for two quizzes in your child's Friday folder that were taken this week.  The students did an excellent job!!

Calling Dr. Taylor....Calling Dr. Wells!!

Today Dr. Taylor and I performed our infamous annual Contraction Surgery.  We performed surgery on two patients:  Mr. Does Not (who wanted to become Mr. Doesn't) and Ms. You Are (who wanted to become Ms. You're).  Our medical students then got to perform surgery of their own.  Here are their patients in the recovery room.  

Have a great weekend!!!