Mrs. Gomes

We have been taking some time to talk about diversity and celebrating our differences this past month. We read and spent some time discussing a children’s picture book by Todd Parr called, It’s Okay to be Different. This picture book promotes self-acceptance, inclusivity and empathy. This story inspired us as a class to create a book of our own called, It’s Okay. Each student created a page for our book with a sentence and picture to match their sentence. Everyone did such a beautiful job on their page. I will be posting each student’s page in our Seesaw Classroom to share with families. The students will be presenting our book at a school wide assembly in February! I am so proud of all the wonderful conversations that took place about kindness, helping others, and the importance of respecting and welcoming everyone no matter what their race, religion, or background. Along with this, we continue to build on our Numeracy and Literacy skills. We are learning and practicing our Doubles and Doubles Plus and Minus 1 Facts and reviewing other math strategies and concepts that we have already learned such as Counting On, Addition, Subtraction, subitizing with dice, ten frames and rekenreks, and the Commutative Property. We will continue to move forward in Math with new concepts and strategies and use Math Seeds and Mathletics to practice our math skills. In Literacy, we continue to use the Right to Read Framework to grow as readers and writers. We also continue to work on our printing skills and writing skills by writing in our Journals and creating writing pieces allowing practice with printing, punctuation and capitalization, and Reading Eggs to grow as readers. I am very proud of everyone for all their hard work. Way to go!