Fireflies

     This week we read both fiction and non-fiction books about Fireflies.  I was shocked to learn that some children have never even seen a firefly.  I remember seeing them all over my yard when I was a kid but not so much anymore.  Keep your eyes open for them this summer.

     We had some PIE in class.  Not apple, or lemon meringue, but authors purpose PIE.  The class searched and sorted titles for each piece; persuade, inform and entertain.

    Students got a little rusty solving subtraction with regrouping problems so we had to do some practicing this week.  We also have been learning about fractions.
  
      I hope you got to enjoy our Memorial Day performance today.  I know I may be biased but I think the second graders were the stars of the show.

     I hope everyone enjoys a nice long weekend.  C'mon SUMMER!
 

    

Poetry and Pigs

     We've had a really fun couple of weeks.  Students have been reading and writing poetry.  It's has been lots of fun.  Fourth grade has been working on poetry as well, so we invited them to join us in writing haikus.  They read some of their work to us and we showed them some of our poems.  Awesome!

     The Three Little Pigs has been our reading theme this week.  Our class read and charted numerous variations of this classic tale.  We still have more versions we haven't had a chance to get to yet.   Who knew there were so many?

     Students ROCKED their mountain test.  Can you find the Atlas Mountains on a map?  I could either but my whole class can now.

     I hope everyone has a wonderful Mother's Day.  I'm actually not disappointed the weather will be soggy.  It just might get me off a sporting field for a change.