It's finally starting to feel like spring and the flowers are blossoming.  The children are also blossoming-as readers.  This week in reading workshop we worked on reading longer texts of both fiction and nonfiction.  The children are working hard at figuring out unknown words using context clues and sounding out while maintaining comprehension.

This week in writing, we wrapped up our unit on informational how-to books.  It is impressive how much they have grown as writers.  They are able to generate ideas, thinking about all the things they know how to do,  organize the order in which the steps occur, and put them in writing.  They are also doing well with the conventions of writing such as grammar and punctuation.  Next week we will begin a new unit on opinion writing.

  

Last week in math we worked on composing numbers 11-19, this week we worked on decomposing numbers 11-19- breaking them down into tens and ones.  We also worked on solving addition and subtraction problems when they are presented vertically.  We continue to practice counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 100.