Today we started on writing our non-fiction styled book to go with our creatures that we imagined and created! We came up with a bright and beautiful cover page, started on our fact pages, and drew some beautiful pictures!
We are so excited to read and learn about our classmate’s animals! 
Today we spent most of the day creating our very own habitats and creatures! We learned that a habitat is where a creature lives. We made up our own creatures and decided what environment they live in. We then made it 3D!
Today we worked on creating stories! We first played with our story workshop kits, made stories, and then we got into patterns and small groups to create intentional stories. We drew out our setting, characters, and problem of a story. We talked about what it means to be a good partner and what it means to listen to others’ ideas. Once we had our story drawn out, we got to making our story with loose parts!
With more rainy days coming, we pulled out our pastels and created rainy day masterpieces! You can see our finished art in the window!
To practice our setting, characters, and the what of sentences and stories, we’ve been making silly sentences!
Today we dressed up, had some birthday treats, and wrote stories!
We love doing math scavenger hunts around the classroom! Ms. Shen hides little cards with math problems around the classroom and we have to hunt for them and fill out our sheets with the correct answers! Today we were counting by 10s! Ms. Shen even hid one under her desk upside down!
We’ve been learning how to research on iPads! We picked any animal and had to search up what it eats, where it lives, and more! 
This week we got straight into it! We started with some New Years art and writing, got back into UFLI, did more writing and reading, and today we took advantage of the little bit of snow we got and started learning about the water cycle! We played with some ice inside our classroom to learn about the states of water and then went outside to play with some of nature’s ice for a few minutes!
Today we started the day with pancakes, had lots of treats, got a gift from Icy the elf, had a school assembly, and so much more! We are ready for a break and then we’ll get back into learning in January! Here are also some highlights of report cards we wrote for Ms. Shen.
