April 1 , 2016
THE CARPENTER CHRONICLES
Language:
We finished the chapter
book Emmaline and the
Bunny, and we wrote a
book response. Mrs.
Carpenter read several
“Question-Answer” type
books, including: Who’s
Nest?, Who’s Egg, Apples
and Oranges, etc. We
noticed the structure of
these books is to give clues
(facts) and try to answer the
questions. We also read
Punctuation Takes a
Vacation, and we reviewed
all the different kinds of
punctuation we use. We
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worked with a partner and
read one “Piggie and
Gerald” book together and
tallied every time we found
different kinds of
punctuation. We made the
conclusion that Mo
Willems likes to use
exclamation points a lot!
questions that we can use
to ask the class and create
our own graphs. We also
solved a variety of story
problems.
Content:
We read various
nonfiction books about
plants in a small group this
Mathematics:
week. We collaborated to
Each day this week Mrs. design a poster to share
Carpenter surveyed us with what we learned, and then
different questions, and
we shared with our
then we created various
classmates.
kinds of graphs on the
smartboard together. We
generated a list of