The week started out a little crazy, with Halloween on Monday! Everyone shared what they were going to be for Halloween during Morning Meeting. We greeted each other in Italian this week - "Buongiorno!" We made appreciation cards for our staff person, Coach Spelman. Thanks to our room parents and Casey Gelfer for coordinating our class appreciation of Coach! Reading: On Monday, we listened to a recording of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and discussed the characters at length. What a great story! Students continued their reading of Chris Van Allsburg books, as well as their own independent books. They worked at centers all week, building on reading comprehension skills, thinking about theme and how characters change in a fiction story. Writing: We used a piece of our Halloween candy to do a sensory writing piece. Students expanded their kernel essay about a "special place". They wrote Harris Burdick mystery stories after a read-aloud of the book. We are working on parts of speech and subject/verb agreement. Social Studies: Groups finished their Native American tribe menus and then visited each other's restaurants and ordered from the different menus. Next week we start learning about the European explorers who came to Texas. To enhance our knowledge of Native American tribes in Texas, we had a special presentation by Ryan and Kaitlyn's dad, Mr. Jayson. He brought a few of the Tonkawa (a central Texas tribe) arrowheads and other items they have collected in this area. He shared how the Indians used each item in their everyday life. He also shared a piece of petrified dinosaur poop that they found!
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