Ms. Pease reads with a reading group

Anthony and Jason read about life in Colonial America

Special Guest Teacher

It was a great Friday in our classroom! We had a special guest teacher in our classroom to help us make corn husk dolls. Retired art teacher, Nancy Stahalick, started out the lesson by reading the Native American legend about the No-Face Doll. After hearing the legend, it was time to start making the corn husk doll. The students did an excellent job listening and following her directions. She will return next Friday to help the students put the finishing touches on the corn husk doll.

Mrs. Stahalick shows the students how to get started

Cordelia makes her corn husk doll

Michaela helps out a friend

In Writer’s Workshop we have been trying out different informational text structures. Students tried writing about their topic in four different text structures.  The four text structures the students tried out were boxes and bullets, compare and contrast, pros and cons, and cause and effect. This practice helped the students realize that their topic may be better suited for one type of text structure over another.

In reading we continue our unit on non-fiction text. Students are reading non-fiction texts on life in the colonial period of America. 

In math we will be starting a new chapter on subtraction with regrouping.

Jlane tries out an informational text structure

The girls hard at work

Cordelia shares what she wrote

Bianca writes her informational text