Mrs. Raper

We had a great first day of school today! We spent the morning getting to know each other, organizing classroom supplies, playing at recess and eating lunch. After lunch, Mrs. Siebert came in to work with us on the "U.S. Map Song".

Here we are practicing our serious pre-performance faces:

We went to art and decorated portfolios for the year:

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We are beginning a study of plants in science. At the end of second grade, we planted sunflowers and today we investigated them.

We observed several different kinds of sunflowers and noted how they are the same and how they are different.

We sketched sunflowers in our science notebooks.

Next week we will dissect sunflowers and paint a sunflower piece in art class.

We did some writing this afternoon and worked with a partner to make revisions. Our partners asked us questions which helped us add more details to our paragraphs.

We wrote about our lunches. Ask your child to make up a sentence about dinner the way we made a paragraph about lunch.

Some students helped me write this sentence about my lunch: I gulped down a mouth-watering tomato, pesto and mozzarella sandwich.

Just so you don't think it's all work, all day, here is a picture of some of us enjoying Four Square on the playground: