Civil Rights Unit and Trout Eggs
/This week we got to celebrate Audrey's birthday! We wrote her birthday letters, admired her baby photos, and enjoyed a hot cocoa celebration. We loved our sunny outdoor explorations and tree climbing this week too. In writer's workshop we continued our nonfiction salmon writing. Today we wrote our About the Author pages. This week we started a mini unit about civil rights and change makers. We began learning about the Bill of Rights and other amendments to the constitution. We started discussing what makes a strong leader. Yesterday we read about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and discussed what characteristics made her a good leader. This week we also received our trout eggs. The eggs are tiny compared to our salmon eggs and they've already started hatching! In math we've been composing and decomposing shapes. We've been exploring foundational geometry concepts and have challenged our brains with tangram puzzles. Several students also learned how to play Kingdomino. This board game requires strategic planning. At the end of the game students use multiplication and addition to figure out their final score. Each reading group started reading a new book this week. Ask your child what he/she has been reading. This afternoon we made welcome signs for Ms. Tami and talked about how it might feel to be a guest teacher. We discussed ways we can be helpful and kind leaders when we have a guest teacher.
