Students are hard at work in their guided reading groups during readers workshop.  During this time, students meet with me to read a book one or two levels higher than their current independent reading level and complete a word study activity, participate in a discussion, or answer higher level comprehension questions.

Students have also started taking home homework books  from their independent reading levels.  These books should be relatively easy for them to read.  If the book is too difficult for your child, feel free to send it back in without reading it to exchange it for a better fitting text.

We've started our family unit!  We've been learning about lots of different family compositions through a series of age appropriate read alouds.  Each student is also creating his/her own family structure poster, which will become a page in our Families Are Different! class book next week.

In writers workshop we've started writing realistic fiction.  Here is the process we use to dream up our realistic fiction stories:

In math we are still working on solving number stories and writing number models to match those stories. The owl tree number story pages students made last week were sent home today with movable owls to tell lots of different kinds of number stories at home!