Today we continued with the concept of "visualization". Students listened to the story, "This Little Light of Mine" and imagined what the story was about. They then brainstormed in groups to create an illustration and short paragraph which they shared with the class. When we re-read the story and looked at the illustrations, students were shocked to see that the story had nothing to do with "light" as they perceived it (flashlights, lanterns, candles, fireflies) and instead it was about a boy whose actions create expressions of joyful radiance on the faces of the other characters in the story.

In Math today, we began Unit 3:  Addition and Subraction to 18.  In this unit, your child will be developing strategies for adding and subtracting 1-digit numbers.  We used the Frayer's Model (Image below) to think about and describe the meaning of addition.

Frayer Model - Graphic Organizer