Exploration of the week of 01/07/2022

Greetings, Friends & Families!

Poem of the week

Beginning a New Year Means

taking off

clothes spattered with

chocolate milk

and mud

throwing away

scribbled pages

full of crossed-out words

and mistakes

watching

old snow

melting away

putting on

clean clothes

without spots or wrinkles

opening

white pages

with nothing written

on them yet

watching

fresh snow

falling

without tiremarks

or footprints

______ Ruth Whitman

What was happening?

This week, my explorers continued their learning and exploring the letter I. They made their “mini I book”, and collected different images that start with the letter I and glued them inside another mini-book. They also finish their “I Can Write” packet about the letter of the week, the letter I. The explorers made an island out of construction papers that represented the letter I.

For their reading comprehension, the explorers were reading “The Night Before New Year’s” book by “Natasha Wing”. We answered “wh” questions, such as, “What story did we read? and, “who was the character in the story?”. We ended this week by reading “The Snowy Day” by “Ezra Jack Keats”.

We also started this week exploring and practicing one of our CORE’s words, “GO”. For this purpose, we used the “Go! Go! Go!” book. Students will be taking their copies home starting next week so they can share and read their books with their families. Please, make sure to return the book to the school every day.

This week, we started a new unit in math, fractions. For the following weeks, we will dive deeper into this concept.

The explorers in room #107 had a great and fun time when they visited and participated in GYM, Music, and ART.

Some amazing news we have in our classroom is that we started a new program called “Reading Buddies” with fourth-graders. A big shout out and thank you to Aya, Leah, and Sarah from Ms. Polster a fourth-grade teacher for joining our classroom on Thursday. They did an awesome and amazing job reading a story with our students.

Enjoy the story of the week with your child 🙂