Today, after Morning Work Time and Morning Meeting, we read Julia's Star of the Week poster (great job, Julia!). Then we had a reading lesson - the kids learned two more reading strategies in the mini-lesson that I taught. they learned how to look for hidden words in tricky words (like finding car and pen in carpenter), and they also learned to take off a "magic ending" (like -ed, -er, -ing), read the word, and then put the ending back on. Both are variations of the "chunk and chew" strategy that they already know.

After reading, we wrote again. The kids finished up the writing that they worked on yesterday, and we will start to use them to make a book later in the week.

After writing, we had a short Choice Time. When we cleaned up, Ms. Bechtel came for our weekly Catalyst lesson - and then, it was time to head home!!