Team Bullard
Here's what's happening in the huddle...
Reading
This week we read Fishy Facts by Ivan Chermayeff. We focused on the following skills:
- identifying base words and -es or -ies endings
- differentiating the topic and main idea of a non-fiction story
We also completed our portfolio core reading assessment. The kids read The Great Big Enormous Turnip and completed a story map and wrote a connection to the story. Look for this in your child's portfolio next week!
Writing
We finished the final copies of our portfolio writing prompts. We also read 2 mentor texts about bubble-gum. One was a non-fiction story about the invention of bubble-gum and the other was a fictional story about Lester Fizz, a boy with an amazing talent. Lester could sculpt his bubbles into masterpieces. We created our own bubble-gum masterpieces. Remember to check them out in the hallway when you visit for portfolio conferences!
Math
We continued to work in unit 6 learning about:
- quarters
- telling time to the 5 minute interval
We also completed our 3rd marking period math assessment as well as a portfolio computation task.
Science
We began our unit on Collecting and Examining Living Things. We learned that living things must be able to grow, use energy from food, become parents, move, adapt, and have cells. We set up an experiment where we prepared 2 separate jars of salt water and added a separate dry substance to each jar. We are waiting to see which substance grows in salt water.
MVP
GUS
Our Roxy Reading Therapy Dog, Gus, came to visit with his owner, Miss Bev. Gus listened to us as we read our portfolio writing pieces today. He was a very patient little leprechaun!
Portfolio Conferences
supplies needed
Looking Ahead
Next week we will:
- read a story called Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon
- study a mentor text called Growing Vegetable Soup and write stories about family activities
- learn about data landmarks, review for our unit 6 test, and take our unit 6 math test
- examine millipedes, crickets, and fish - Oh My!
- record our Readers' Theater stories to post on next week's newsletter (sorry, this took longer than expected!)