Communities Projects

In social studies, we have been learning about communities.  We learned that communities can be rural or urban, need workers, have different places, and need laws and rules.  To cap off the unit, students made their own communities!  Check out all of their hard work!

The Pledge of Allegiance

In honor of Patriot Day on 9/11 and Constitution Day on 9/17, we have spent a lot of time talking about our country in the past two weeks.  On Monday, we spent time dissecting the Pledge of Allegiance.  We were very surprised by some of the words!  When you say the pledge, they tend to run together and you don't even realize that they are separate words!  After that, we worked in partners to come up with reasons why the pledge is so important.  Now we have a new pride in our voices as we say the pledge along with Mrs. Wills every morning.

Predicting the Future (of stories)

We started our first reading strategy last week!  Each month we will learn a new metacogntion (THINKING) strategy.  Our first strategy is making predictions.  Good readers predict what will happen next in the story.  This works with both fiction and nonfiction texts.  Good predictors pick up on clues left by the author.

To kick off this strategy, we took a look at some interesting pictures.  In partners, students then had to predict what happened before, during, and after the picture was taken.  We had some great predictions!