Last week in reading we worked on making predictions.  Before we read, we guessed what the story might be about.  As we read, we guessed what might happen on the next page.  Even after reading we guessed what might happen to the characters now that the story is over.  Practice making predictions with stories you read at home, or as you watch TV shows or movies! 

We are getting really fancy with our patterns in math.  We can name patterns with letters, and even count the repeating units of a pattern.  We can even make non-patterns. This week we drew our own patterns and continued to practice making them online with Virtual Manipulatives and the Promethean Board.  Next week we will review some concepts from the first quarter like position words and graphing.  We'll also start our next unit on counting and cardinality.

This week in Science, we finished up our study of the water cycle by making a rain stick.  It was a lot of fun, and we really worked like scientists.  First, we looked at all of our materials and tried to figure out what we would make.  Then, we tried to figure out how to put the cap on the paper towel holder.  It was tricky.  Then, we had to decide what would make the best rain sound.  We could pick rice or corn.  Finally, we added some tin foil to our tube to help make the rain sound.  Some people rolled it, some tore it up, and some rolled it into a ball.  We realized that different ways of making the rain stick produced different results!  The next day, we painted white, gray and black clouds on our tube. If we shook the tube, would it rain?  Who knows, but we sure had a rainy Friday after we made them!!

In writing this week, we wrote about our weekend, made a list of things a firefighter wears, labeled a firefighter, and wrote a sentence with the words "I like".  We are getting really good at stretching out our words to listen for letters so we can spell words!

 One of our favorite Center is Playdoh.  We can write letters and words and even spell our names!