Our national landmark challenge was a huge success! Thank you to the parents for supporting your children through this memorable learning experience! Each project showed so much effort and understanding of amazing monuments, memorials, and landmarks throughout our country. It was so wonderful to see the children take ownership of their learning and bring it to life through reports, posters, pictures, notecards, slideshows, and models!
Below you will find many pictures of math- we worked on regrouping across 3 digits! We also learned how to regroup when the number ends with 00 (Ex: 600-273)
During reader's workshop we practiced making connections! We learned about text to text connections, text to self connections, and text to world connections! We also carefully considered the mood and tone of the story. We discovered that the author uses color, illustrations, dialogue, word choice, and punctuation to convey the mood of the story to the reader.
The children's landmark presentations were AMAZING! It was terrific to see the children confidently share their learning and their hard work with their classmates.
We were happy to welcome Mayor Hayes to Dryden! He taught us about the job of the mayor, and how he has a board of trustees to help him make important decisions for our town. He talked about the government services that are available to the residents in our town, and the special events that are available to our families such as the tree lighting and the Santa run (which just took place this past weekend! :)
A grand finale of the week was our national landmark fair. The children displayed their projects and happily shared their learning with the first graders in Ms. Erpelo's class, as well as any parents that were available to drop by. Our classroom was abuzz with both enthusiastic learners and project viewers!
And special thanks to Gianluca's mom for snapping and sending the following perfect individual photos of each student with their project!
Alexis shined as our star student this week! We were happy to share an experiment and a story with Alexis, her mom, and her dad, who stopped in for a visit on Friday afternoon.
We are so fortunate to have a sweet, caring friend like Alexis in our classroom this year!
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