September 2nd-5th: Students have worked with fantansy and realism through a big book story called Minerva Louise this week. It's a funny story about a hen who wonders away from the farm and thinks the red school house is a big red barn. Ask your first grader about some of the things she mistook as items back on the farm. Anthology Stories: Our anthology stories this week are What Can a Vet Do and Hot Fox Soup. These are grade level texts that both support the two genres, fantasy and realism. Phonics: Working with short e sounds. Vocabulary development: Opposites and foods