We Are Writers!
Week #21 January 28-February 1, 2019

Writing was a highlight this week!  We finished our non-fiction unit with a Publishing Party on Monday.  We also completed a district-wide writing prompt, and started a unit on opinion writing by writing about our favorite characters and our favorite scenes in our favorite book.  On Friday, we celebrated Vermont Writes Day as part of The Young Writer's Project to "drop everything and write".  The Publishing Party was a wonderful celebration of our hard work and creativity.  We joined Mrs. Belisle's class and were able to read each other's books as well as write feedback to the author as a "Publishing Party Positive".  Our feedback was based on reviewing the author's lead, ending, organization, detail and spelling/punctuation.  Oh, and we had pops too.  What a treat!  Here are a few pictures of our event.

We've received mail!  Six Flat Stanleys have returned along with 3 postcards from 2nd grade classrooms in Pennsylvania, California and Arizona.  How exciting!  This is an amazing way to support our learning of US Geography as we learn about the states our Flat Stanleys have visited.  The postcards are part of a project where we exchange a post card with a 2nd grade classroom in each of the other 49 states.  We were busy this week writing our fun facts about Vermont to mail on post cards to our 2nd grade pen pals.  Here we are with our returned Flat Stanleys.

I have a fun culminating project planned for the end of our US geography unit.  We'll need a box for each student.  The box needed is the box that holds reams of photocopy paper like this:

If you have access to any, at home or work, please save them and send them in to school when you can.  Both the bottom and top of the box will be used.  Fun times ahead!

We will have a pancake breakfast to celebrate Valentine's Day together.  Thank you to families who have already signed up to contribute to this event.  A class list went home today in Take Home Folders for your child to reference for making Valentine cards.

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*decomposing (splitting) numbers to add
*Susan Laughs with Mrs. Wheeler
*Whole-school assembly led by Kindergarten
*GoNoodle exercise breaks and mindfulness
*Mercy Watson

Have a wonderful weekend.
Mrs. Hock