Creatures of the Night

Today we began our study of nocturnal animals. We started the morning listening to Stellaluna, a touching story about a bat, that emphasizes that differences should be celebrated and accepted, and it's always best to just be yourself.

For Readers Workshop today, students were instructed in how to mark pages of interest with Post It Notes while they read stories. They began with two Post Its and we will work up to more as they practice using them in appropriate ways.

We also read Creatures of the Night which introduced a variety of other nocturnal animals: bat, possum, owl, firefly, snail, eel, etc. This helped students to complete a worksheet which asked them to discriminate between nocturnal animals and those that are not. Nocturnal animals are animals that sleep during the day and are active in the nighttime.

After lunch, we reread Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? and listed the characters (just like we did for Brown Bear..) After that, we sorted the characters from BB and the characters from PB.