Apple Week

Our theme this week is apples. Our word of the day today was "they". It was a rule breaker, because the "ey" said the sound of "ay". We listed other "ay" words on the Hay of -ay. It was very popular. The word they is a pronoun. It takes the place of two or more people. Then we had library and lunch. After recess, Mrs. Myers read Rain Makes Applesauce. It was very silly. We listened for verbs in the story. Then, we made a classbook using our own silly verb sentences. Then, it was reading workshop time. We learned how to use the new activity packet for our books. Guided reading starts tomorrow. In writing workshop, Mrs. Myers shared the story, Down the Road. We listened to how the author described the setting with details, so we could make a picture in our heads. Dawson and Lille also gave us settings to make pictures in our heads. Then, we wrote in our journals. We tried to revise the settings from our first story. We learned the "carrot" mark for adding new details. We shared Grace, Elle, and Madison's stories. We will continue tomorrow. After recess, we had a new center tour. We have apple centers this week. This week, we will visit games center, writing center, overhead center, and magnetic letters. In the games center, we are sorting cards by beginning letter sounds. We record the letter with the picture on our paper. In the writing center, we are writing true facts to describe the apples Mrs. Myers has on the table. She is going to use our description to tell which apple we were describing - apple 1 or apple 2. At the overhead center, we are coloring short a and long a pictures by a code. We are writing and adding a magic "e" to the long vowel words. We used MRs. Myers' "magic e wand". In the magnetic letter center, we are using the letters, a, b, s, t, r to make two letter words, three letter words, and four letter words. We packed up after a great day! More apples tomorrow. Mrs. Myers has a substitute tomorrow morning. She will be at school, but she is working with other teachers. In our mail tonight, please sign and return the field trip form.