A Week in Review - A little late!

I hope you all enjoyed your nice long weekend!  My family spent some time in St. Louis.  I took my computer so that I could blog but I forgot the cord and my computer died!  So here is last week's update.  

We are doing lots with non-fiction.  This week we sorted fiction books and non-fiction books.  We talked lots about features that help us know which is which.  Here are some of the things we noticed.  

Fiction: 

Told like a story

Has a beginning, middle and end

Not real

Non - Fiction:

Has real pictures

Has bold words

Has a table of contents

Tells true facts.  

Check out some of the books we sorted!

We are also writing some non-fiction books too!  We talked about telling true facts in our books and teaching about things we are experts on.  Check out some of our fabulous work!  

In math we are working on counting on.  We played a game where we flashed a number on our fingers with a partner.  Then we counted all the fingers to find out how many we have.  We also learned how to show counting all on paper.  

We learned about the bossy e this week.  We learned that when there is an e on the end of a word, the e bosses the other vowel and tells it to say it's name.  We read lots of three letter words then added an e to see how it changed.  Check it out!

We also had lots of valentines day fun!  Thanks to Johnston Paint for donating our fabulous paint buckets to 

hold our valentines!  We added our own personal touches and turned them into valentine mailboxes.  

The party was great success!  Thanks to all the wonderful parents that helped make it possible.  You all are the best!  

Other announcements:

• No checklists last week due to conferences.  Thank you so much to everyone who came!  We had 100% attendance!  Hooray! 

• Beginning the week I am going to keep the blue folders here at school for the week.  We will use them more like Friday Folders.  Our kids are having trouble remember to take them back and forth and we rarely use them during the week.  Since the reading logs are usually kept in the back of the folder, I am asking that families take them out and keep them at home.  Please return them at the end of the month.  I will send a reminder before I am collecting them.  At our house we clip ours to our refrigerator so we always know where it is!  Thanks for your help with this new routine.  I think it will be more efficient and help kids keep track of them!