Week 3

"You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing."  --Doris Lessing

We have been writing in our writer's notebooks and sharing our stories, thoughts and ideas.  There are some exceptional stories and everyone does a great job participating.  We completed the district wide writing prompt on Thursday.  In math we worked on estimation, addition and subtraction of whole numbers.  We continue to improve our learning conversations as we play math games.  In science we discussed how much physical activity we should get and what activities we like to do.  This is one of the stronger classes this year as the students one of the students completed 37 pushups!

We will be taking a field trip to the recycling plant in Springfield in October.  In connection with recycling, we read the story about the polluting of the Nashua River.  We had many questions about the story and pollution, so we will research about the Nashua River, Connecticut River and Westfield River next week.

A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry   A River Ran Wild is the True Story of the History, the Polluting and the Clean-up of the Nashua River.