We work hard in our Literacy Groups. The students read many different kinds of books. They bring a book home each night except Friday to read. This book will be in a special folder, and this book and folder need to be brought back to school each day. We are working on the word family "ing".

We write about ourselves, our families, books, and things that have happened. Mostly, we write about things that we know about and are very familiar with.We talk about what we want to say in our story and each child gets to write his sentence on the chart paper for the story. All help each other to spell words, leave spaces, and use periods.

The children need to learn many high frequency words. These are words that they use frequently when talking, will see frequently when reading, and will need frequently when writing. We will make a word wall with these words as they learn them. Then they will need to be able to find words that they need to use. We will be playing word wall games to help them do that. We are constantly working on high frequency words and learning new high frequency words. Our high frequency words for this week are: as, said, has, with, over, into, how, many, why, they, he, does.

Each week we work on language by learning a new poem. We will say it together each day. Then on Friday, each will say it individually. They seem to love learning the poems. Our poem for this week is "On Thanksgiving".