Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful week end. Here are a few things that are going on in room 221! This morning we went book shopping around the room to trade in our picture books for our book boxes. Then we traded our read the word books. Everyone is doing excellent work during daily five! We are up to 12 minutes of uninterrupted reading and continue each day to build our stamina! Well done kids! We now have many strategies up on our CAFÉ menu to help us become better readers. This week we are working on reading with expression which helps us with our fluency and asking ourselves questions as we read. This helps us with our comprehension. Tell someone at home what comprehension means!             The students are coming along in their writing quite nicely. Many come to school each day with a topic in their pocket! We have been learning about adjectives and how they help make our stories more interesting because they are describing words! The students are now able to see how well they are doing with their writing by checking at the back of our room to see if their writing matches the sample of a good writer. Writer’s get a thumbs up to: using finger spaces between their words, having a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence and using punctuation at the end of sentences, using the word wall and stretching out sounds of unknown words! We have already been in school for 42 days! That was our number of the day today! Was that number even or odd boys and girls? How did you know? In grade 1 we are learning how to use a ten frame to find out our pairs that make ten. Also, we are learning how to use a number line to help us with our addition sentences and number stories! We also continue to practice our skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.The grades 2’s are looking at number lines too! They are really working hard at skip counting with different starting points. It can get tricky! As you can see we are working really hard here in room 221! I hope everyone has an excellent sleep tonight and comes to school ready to listen and learn!