Another Wacky Wednesday..

Today Mrs. McDermott came in to teach the class a Writers Workshop lesson, introducing the "Turn-N-Talk" method of sharing with a partner. It involves turning toward a partner, knee to knee and eye to eye, and taking turns sharing their stories and asking each other questions about details of the story.

We practiced the formation of the letter C. There's a song that can help reinforce proper practices.
(sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It")
Start here go up around and down then stop.
Start here go up around and down then stop.
Start here go up around and down, let's make a C.
Start here go up around and down then stop.

After reading Aaaaaargggghhhh! Spider! we reinforced the difference between fiction and non-fiction stories. We've had many examples of each of these kinds of stories, especially relating to spiders. Linking to this discussion, we used our Science Notebooks to sort clip art of fiction and non-fiction spiders. Students were highly successful in this task.

After recess, we cut colored and assembled a globe with a boat that travels around the perimeter. (It's hard to explain, but will be coming home in Thursday folders tomorrow for you and your child to enjoy.)

We had music for the first time today with all of the Kindergarten classes. We sang a couple of classic children's songs: "There was a farmer had a tree and guess what grew upon it. A-P-P-L-E..." and "Skitamarinky Dinky Dink, Skitamarinky Doo, I Love You..."