This week we really enjoyed planting our Wisconsin Fast Plants! The kids are excited that they are already starting to grow! We made our first observation and measured the sprouts yesterday. We have many fun lessons in store once they get a little bigger and begin to bloom! The kids have been working very hard in Reading Workshop. They began their station rotations this week and did an awesome job! Each of them got to practice our Reading, Writing, Listening and Working With Words stations. They worked hard and I saw some really great work at the end of each station. We continued to learn about the rest of the genres and are ready to make our Reader's Notebooks. It will be a great resource for the kids, and a place to log their books and keep their responses to literature organized. We began our Narrative Unit in Writing. We thought about a special person in our lives and then made a list of all the memories we had with that person. We then picked one memory from the list and wrote down all of our thoughts, trying to write at least one whole page. We shared our writing and picked a spot that we thought was really great. We call this the "wow spot". Every time we write we are going to try to have a "wow spot" to make our writing sound more interesting. In Math we have been working on place value up to the hundred thousands place. The kids were very excited to work with bigger numbers. They learned the different ways to write numbers...standard form, expanded form, word form and using place value blocks. They had to take numbers in the hundred thousands and practice using all of these ways to write and identify them. It was a challenge to work with such big numbers and we will be continuing to practice this next week. I hope everyone enjoys the weekend. The weather is suppose to be beautiful! I love fall and look forward to doing some fun fall activities!