We had a fantastic day today! It began by reviewing the attributes of different 3D figures. Students worked individually or in pairs to build 3D shapes using toothpicks as the edges and playdough as the vertices. This was a great way to really see student understanding. Many of them then created composite shapes by adding two shapes together. This was a lot of fun. In Language Arts, we read two stories today and began to learn what a text-to-text connection is (when one book/story reminds us of another one). We read the stories 'More Than Anything Else' and 'Thank You Mr. Falker.' Both of these stories are about learning how to read, a topic we could all relate to. We began to look for similarities between the two stories. For our unit of inquiry, we had our first community member come to visit; Candice Cipullo (we called her Mrs. C/Kevin's Mom, if that is what you hear at home). Candice is a very talent music teacher. She brought in instruments for all of the students to play different rhythms with, we sang songs, danced, and learned. Our little learners had an AWESOME time! We will definitely be asking her to join us for songs again in the near future. After Mrs. C. left, we re-read the story 'What If Everybody Did That?' and began to write our own class book about why it is important to be good citizens.
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