Writing and Sharing with a Partner

We have been writing "Small Moment Stories." We've been writing about things we've done and things that have happened to us. We've worked on adding details, making sure our writing is legible, and making our illustrations colorful and exciting. 

As a celebration of our hard work and story writing so far, we partnered up and shared stories. These authors gave each other positive feedback, learned more about each other, and even got some ideas for their own stories!

Here are two quick videos of students sharing their work.

All School Share Performance

Check out our performance at November's All School Share. We sounded so spectacular with the other singers in Mrs. Menz, Mrs. Kulis, and Mrs. Mandigo's class!

Do you want to sing along? Here are the lyrics...

Thatcher Brook School Song

(To tune of Yellow Submarine)

Thatcher Brook is a great school.

Where we follow the golden rule.

And we write, and sing, and play

With our friends every day.

We all go to Thatcher Brook School. Thatcher Brook School. Thatcher Brook School

We all go to Thatcher Brook School. Thatcher Brook School. Thatcher Brook School

We are safe. We do our best.

Make good choices. School's our nest.

Read a book and do our math.

We are friends who like to laugh.

We all go to Thatcher Brook School. Thatcher Brook School. Thatcher Brook School

We all go to Thatcher Brook School. Thatcher Brook School. Thatcher Brook School

Math Happenings

We have been trying a lot of activities in math to help us solve addition and subtraction problems accurately and efficiently.

One of the activities is called "Combination Sort" - we have to sort addition equations by their sums.

"Make 10 Butterflies" and "Make 20 Butterflies" are class favorites. We put together puzzle pieces by looking for partners to 10 or 20.

Counters in a Cup is a game where we hide counters under a cup and our partner has to guess how many counters are being hidden.

Our newest activities are called "Bump Addition" and "Bump Subtraction!" Each player gets 10 cubes and rolls the dice. They put one of their cubes on top of the answer (from adding or subtracting). The object of the game is to get all of your cubes on the game board. You can "bump" other players off the board if you roll a number your partner has already covered.

Ask your child what his/her favorite math activity or game is and how they play!

Reading Buddies

Have you heard about our reading buddies? These fuzzy creatures help us feel comfortable as we read independently. We practiced making sure that they were helping us become better readers and not distracting us. We can read for a really long time when we have something special to read to. ;)