Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!!

Last week we studied poetry, rhyming words and the books and life of Dr. Seuss. We began writing a biography about Dr. Seuss whose actual name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. As most of you know we celebrated Read Across America. This is an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association. One part of the project is National Read Across America Day, an observance in the United States held on March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Our students did a great job reading outside of school and we celebrated with a Dr. Horton Hears a Who and a popcorn party. We also made mini-birthday cakes to celebrate....ummmmm yummy and messy as you can see.

Good Ole Abe

Last week we researched several things but our focus was on our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln. We studied the penny and determined its worth. We studied about his childhood and about all his accomplishments before and after he became our president. Did you know that President Lincoln never was elected to the Senate? We made Lincoln Log cabins with sticks and with paper....what a glue mess! We learned a lot about our history and a little bit about our nations history.

We also studied other sons of liberty by reading the book John, Paul, George and Ben. We learned the differences between fact and opinion. Did you know the story about George Washington chopping down the cherry tree is actually a fable? It was a story developed to teach children about honesty. Ironic right?

Remember to keep reading this week as we participate in Read Across America and study Dr. Suess. More later.....

Our Ought to Buy Autobiographies

Over the past two weeks we have been working on writing our own autobiographies and celebrating our differences. We have studied the writing process and actually completed and labeled each section. I'm very excited. It's always a great feeling to actually complete something!! We also did a few Valentine's projects, specifically with our speech students to target their specific sounds.

A New Beginning!!

Sorry for the catch up but it has been a crazy few weeks. With all the snow days and makeup days and sick days......we are just now getting caught up. So I apologize for the delay but from this week on we will be up to date. So check out our pictures and our newsletter (coming out tomorrow 2-10-10). For the next few weeks we will be studying about our Presidents and about their teeth. Watch us become patriotic.