Oops, I forgot my hat

We started out our morning reading A Giraffe and a Half and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish which gave the class an excellent opportunity to talking about rhyming.

This morning we started our review of Concepts About Print during Reader's Workshop. Students identified front, back, spine, cover, title page, publication page. We also reinforced that books should be read from front to back, from left to right and top to bottom. We will begin testing for Concepts About Print in the upcoming week or two.

In Writer's Workshop, we began work on the covers for our Sourcebooks. These are the journals that we will be throughout readers workshop. Covers contained the words "My Sourcebook" and the students' name. Around the border, we drew icons to spark ideas of writing topics. For example, some students drew a Band-Aid to remind them that they might write about a time when they got hurt. Others drew balloons to remind them that they might want to write about parties or celebrations that they attend.

For math, we learned and practiced drawing the number 5. Down the street and around the corner, Oops! I forgot my hat. We went to the Library this afternoon and Mrs. Williams read us Bark George and The Napping House. Students checked out books and received bookmarks from Mrs. Williams.

Science consisted of making two charts. One of them was What we KNOW about trees.. while the other was What we WANT to know about trees... These will be the springboard for our study of trees in November. At the end of the unit we will complete a third chart of What we LEARNED about trees..