Happy new year! 2013 is going to be an exciting year. We will start by learning more about visualization, a reading comprehension strategy. We are learning about it through daily read-alouds. We are also learning how to write descriptive pieces to paint a picture in the readers' mind. Students have written winter landscape descriptions, will swap with another classmate, and illustrate them so we can see how someone else visualizes our description. Reviewing the short vowel sounds, studying non-fiction text features, and learning the difference between fact and opinion will be other language arts areas we will cover in January. Room 19 has embarked on a journey to learn about each other's stories of family heritage, tradition and culture. Our resident artist, L'Ana Burton, starts in two weeks. She will deepen our study through dance. In math, we are learning about groups of tens and extras and are becoming familiar with solid and plane shapes in geometry.
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Nick Cassarino
1/7/2013 09:00:53 am
In the new website I liked the photos. I was in most of them. I would like to add photos of the classroom or something else but the trail walk. I loved the pictures from the trail walk too!
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Mrs. Abbott
1/7/2013 10:31:33 am
Nick - I love your idea of adding pictures of the classroom to our website. Let's use the iPad to take some photos of learning in action! Thanks for checking out the website and being the first to comment! :)
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1/10/2013 05:21:14 am
Excellent website! Good for sharing with family members!
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Ethan Feinberg
1/11/2013 06:52:30 am
I liked watching the assembly movie and seeing the Trail Walk pictures since I missed that day when I was sick.
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Emma
1/13/2013 07:40:19 am
It was fun to be able to see our assemblies
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