This week we studied two different authors, Eric Carle and Dr. Seuss. I read to the kids Eric Carle's biography, and then together we picked out important facts and made an anchor chart. The kids read independently about Dr. Seuss and wrote down important facts in their writing journals. After reading about each author, the students learned about text and graphic features. In our text, Dr. Seuss, we found the following Non-Fiction text features: table of contents, captions, photographs, and bold face words. In order to help us identify and recall these features, we created a book to share with our families. Throughout the week we read various stories written by Eric Carle and Dr. Seuss. As a recap of the week we wrote an informational piece about Eric Carle. Before they wrote independently, I modeled for the students how to write an informational writing piece with their help using facts we had learned from Dr. Seuss' biography. I emphasized the importance of topic sentences, and we discussed various examples of good introduction sentences.

Our phonics focus was on "s blends." Throughout the week the students practiced hearing, writing, and reading "s blend" words. We did various word and picture sorts, as well as an "s blend" spider that we used to write down various words we came up with that had "s blends." Our end of the week spelling assessment consisted of shaving cream fun with "s blends". 

We continued learning about shapes this week in math, but more specifically we focused on 3-D shapes. In our math journals we glued a picture of each 3-D shape and listed various attributes for each shape. After exploring each shape's attributes, the kids experimented in groups which shapes could stack, slide, and roll. We ended our week by finding shapes in the real world through a shape hunt. We then reviewed our findings and shared what we discovered on Friday.