Welcome Back!

Even though it still looks like winter outside, we know Spring is really on the way! We all had a chance to share a sentence or two about our break and tried to use at least one WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE word. Most of us find it easier to write our ideas in our journals if we talk about them first.

After guided reading and journals, we had library. Most of us remembered our books, which was great so we could check out 2 more of our favorites to read.

We have moved our Gym time to 11:15-12:15, so we have more time for writing before recess when our brains are fresh! We were all so excited about our final Medal count for Mathlympics that Mrs. Armour forgot to stop for gym! We will do a final tally for our whole class tomorrow. We got all cleaned up and ready to go and then did relay games outside today. We are all getting back into the swing of routine again.

We started on a big 100 word spelling list today! We printed 25 today and will work through the list this week. This will give us a good idea of where we are with our most used words and which ones we need to practice. Most of us found the first 25 pretty easy and are waiting for the challenging ones ahead!

We didn't get to do Mathletics today because we were working on our "Bubble words" for our All About Me books. Most of the computers had been unplugged over Spring break so it took longer to log in and get started.

Tomorrow we will get back to our Animal research and try to get the "must haves" written down.
These are four words you can ask us about.

1. Hibernate
2. Migrate
3. Adapt
4. Predator

Once we are done our animal research writing, we will be doing a diorama to show our learning. We can start looking for SHOE BOXES at home. Once we find one we like, we can write our name on it and bring it to school. 

Friday is our Citizen Science program here at school. We will be outside learning about bird observation. Please remind us to dress warm and wear snow pants because we will be sitting on the ground and looking up! Thanks for everyone who has returned the photo release form.

If you didn't get a chance to read the blog over the break, please go back and check out the pictures of our jungle safari and sharing times.