We learned so much about elephants! We read tons of nonfiction and charted our new learning.  We also read "Horton Hears a Who".  Horton is an elephant with a big heart who stands up for his little friends. We read this in honor of 
Dr. Seuss's birthday on March 2nd. We are learning the difference between fiction and nonfiction and the features of nonfiction and story elements of fiction.

Horton was helpful to his Who friends.  We wrote about being helpful. 

We started with charting our schema. Then we charted our new learning about elephants. We learned some amazing facts! 

Did you know that there are two kinds of elephants? Yup! African and Asian. 

Our elephant fact book. 

Each flap opens up!

We learned about "inferring". That's when you figure things out!

We learned about text features of nonfiction.  One is labels. The other is a caption- a little extra information that goes with the picture. 

First we discussed and wrote about our schema , then after reading we wrote a new fact that we learned.