Thursday, March 22, 2018

Our last mystery reader in March

Mr.  Nolan joined us for a final mystery reader appearance before break.  Mrs. Johnson’s class was lucky 🍀 enough to join in the fun.  Stand Back said the elephant I’m going to sneeze.  



Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Classroom collaboration

The students in Mrs. McNitt’s room joined us to make a collaborative art project for the up coming art auction.  Students took turns rotating into Mrs. McNitt’s room and our room for buddy reading!  

































Special Guest Author

Jennifer Strauss, a Michigan author visited Westwoods today to talk to the students about writing.  Jennifer is a former teacher and now travels the country presenting to schools on writing. 







Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Partner reading minutes add up

Students are loving racking up those reading minutes and sharing their reading, connections and let be for reading.  







Mystery Reader #9

Mystery reader #9 was Mr. Winterer.  He shared an amazing book called Amos and Boris.  The students loved this story and thinking about the author's purpose.  This higher level thinking is such fun with these 5 and 6 year olds.  When you read to your child, ask them what they think the author's purpose is and why do they think that!






An unexpected package...

Dr. Science surprised our class on Friday by shipping a package for the students. Each student has a name badge, lab coat, safety goggles, and even some non-latex gloves for when things get messy with science. The first two experiments that Dr. Science sent materials for were the Walking Rainbow and Rainbow flowers.

We mainly focused on making a hypothesis, what is a hypothesis, science safety, and turn taking. We will be working on recording our results accurately, questioning our data, communicating our findings and reflecting on content, as well as, ourselves as scientists. 



























Readers Make Connections




Students are sticky noting the pages where they made connections to the story.  They are able to share these connection with the class or with their reading partners.  We are practicing using Spinny the Spider who reminds us that reading is like a web, it connects to many parts of a reader’s life.  





Mystery reader #6

Mr.  Rob was mystery reader #6, he came in full flight suit to read The Secret Pizza Party.  Mr. Rob graciously answered all of the students questions about being a rescue swimmer.