Each day of the week, the students work on a different language task.  One day is designated for spelling activities where the students practice their spelling words for the week and look at different grammatical structures and proofreading strategies.  One day is also designated for poetry where students read the poem and create "mental pictures" of the poem.  It is then followed up  with writing activities that also look at different writing strategies, such as rhyming words, sentence structure, sound blends, etc.  Today, the students worked on Writers’ Workshop.  They have already created a brainstorming web at the back of their notebook to refer to each time they are to write during WW (Writers' Workshop) about all the different ideas they can write about during WW and started their first writing piece.  Today's lesson that we discussed was about “the main idea” and “supporting details”.  Ask your child about these two concepts.  We are still working on Data Management in math.  We should be wrapping up the unit at the end of this week.  The grade one students continue to complete a tally chart by surveying their classmates and creating a bar graph based on the data they collect.  The grade two students have been working on pictographs where a symbol must represents their data.  They must choose how many students/people each symbol represents.