End of Week One!

Well, week one is over, and what a wonderful week it's been! I feel so lucky to have those 20 precious students in my class! We had a busy week, but a fun week. Here are some of the things we've been doing to end our week...

In writing, we started our study of memoirs. I introduced the genre by allowing students to read a collection of memoirs and make their own observations about the similarities of the books. We made a class noticing chart to discuss the characteristics they noticed, and the students figured out on their own that the books were memoirs! How smart are they?!

We also continued to learn about the process skills scientists use by doing our own experiment! Students made predictions about how gummy bears would be affected by being placed in water, salt water, water with baking soda, and vinegar for 24 hours! Here are the results:

Students then had to make quantitative observations of the gummy bears by measuring the length of the gummy bears and comparing those measurements to the length of a normal gummy bear so we could discuss the change. 

Wow, we learned so much this week, but we had so much fun! I can't wait to see what next week holds for us! I'll leave you with a cute little video that just makes me smile. The students were watching a story being read to them on Tumblebooks and they were enjoying it so much, they decided to read along with the author! Enjoy!!