Writing: Personal Narrative

• Writer continued to work on editing,  revising and producing new narratives
• Writer’s focused on raising their level of narrative writing by including descriptive and action words, putting in their thought and feelings and some pushed themselves and included dialogue.

Reading: Writing about reading

• Readers continued to build their reading stamina
• Mini-conferences about reading logs and expectations
• Reading to identify the literary elements: Character, Setting, Important Events, Conflict/Problem, Resolution and Theme

Science: Mixtures and Solutions

• The investigators were challenged to find out what happens when too much salt is added to 50 ml of water.
• Vocabulary: saturation, solution, mixture, solute and solvent

Tie-Dye:

• Thank you for all the volunteers that were able to come and help with our tie-dye t-shirts.
• Thanks for the $5 contribution toward the cost of the shirts, dye and screen printing.

Zones of Regulation:

This year we are working on helping each child to have a visual representation of their emotions.

We are developing ways to understand, recognize, monitor, and control our responses to what we feel.