Thank you to all the parents who came on our field trip to Union Station! The kids had a great time and we have been able to revisit some of the ideas learned there in our cultural lessons this week, including information about standard measures of time, land and water forms, types of rocks and more. It was definitely the highlight of our week!

We also got back into our regular spelling groups and did our second week of response-based Writer’s Workshop. On Friday mornings we are reading a short book together as a class and then writing from a prompt based on that book. The first week we read a simple biography about Ruby Bridges (the first African-American child to integrate an elementary school in the South) as part of Black History Month and then wrote either about how we can choose to be brave or kind in our own life or paraphrased her story. This past week we read “What If You Had Animal Eyes?” (generously donated by a family in our class at the last book fair–thank you!!) and each child got to pick which set of animal eyes they would want and why. The class has been doing a great job with their responses and I plan to continue this more specific form of Writer’s Workshop for the rest of the year.

This coming week is our school’s Literacy Week. I have created another blog post with many of those details, but I’m also attaching the flyer here for Literacy Night, which will be on Tuesday. I hope to see many of you there!