Room 9 ~ 2016-2017: What have we been up to?

Monday, September 26, 2016

What have we been up to?

Last week we got our first units rolling in reading and writing. We have been talking about and reading realistic fiction. Our class read aloud book is Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo, and we are enjoying learning more about our main character, Rob, and what his personality is like. Soon we will begin planning and drafting our own realistic fiction stories.

We have also been talking a lot about being scientists and practicing some things real scientists do in our mini science notebooks. One important thing scientists do is observe and sketch things they cannot take into a lab with them. To practice this we studied something we are very familiar with....pencils! Students studied and learned the names of the parts, read how pencils are made and watched a video. This week we will finish up these notebooks by comparing pencils to markers. Then we will be ready to being our first official science unit about salmon!

Here are a few pictures of Room 9 scientists:

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#Thewezel

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Person's completed sketch before adding color

Last week we also had buddies for the first time! We are older buddies to the first graders in Mrs. S's class. We got to know each other and filled out a Double Bubble Map to compare and contrast our interests and hobbies. There were lots of smiles and it is so fun to see Room 9 students helping the younger S.B. students.