First Week Back

Our first week of 2013 has been a full one. We have been busy with a lot of group and partner work. We have started our new writing unit. This week we learned about the parts of a letter and did some shared letter writing as a class as well as responding to the story Click Clack Moo with letters written in pairs. Our new math unit on Shapes and Fractions has begun. We played a game where students orally described a hidden design to a partner who then tried to copy the design based on the shape names, descriptions, and position words used. We also began our new Social Studies on Mapping. Students explored books and actual maps, and we brainstormed what we know about types of maps and how maps are used. Ask your child how a map might have helped Hansel and Gretel! Also stay tuned...we will be requesting some photos for the Science/Weather portion of this unit.