Visit From Author Doreen Cronin

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On Monday we had a visit from some sixth graders who had written stories in French.  They read their stories to us, let us color their illustrations, and left us copies to read during Readers Workshop.
Our Readers Workshop focused on response journals this week.  Writers Workshop was focused on specialist books. We began Unit 4 in Fundations, which reviews the suffixes s, es, ed and ing.  It will also introduce sounds for oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue and ew.
This was the last week for our ant unit.  We spent the week solving our classmate's ant problems and discussing the various solutions we came up with for those problems.  We also completed a number corner and end of unit assessment.  Next week we will begin Unit 3 which will focus on addition, subtraction and probability.
Today we had a visit from author Doreen Cronin.  She shared her book Mom and talked with us about the process she uses to create her books.  She also talked to us about how important it is to read a lot because reading helps writers get ideas and become better writers.  We had a great time and made lots of great connections to the work we have been doing in our Writers Workshop.
Firefly will be having a "Harvest" party on Monday afternoon.  We will be playing games, making a craft, and having a snack.  Please email me if you can provide a snack or juice for the party.  It is school policy that no costumes be worn at school on Halloween. 
Please be sure to go to the Firefly website and sign up for your fall conference.  We are having conferences after school during the week of November 7-11.  I look forward to meeting with everyone at this time.