Good-Bye Pigs

We began our day with an assembly to learn about the Constitution of the United States. We learned many important facts about the Constitution, and we talked about our own Constitution at Roundtown when we are Roundtown PROUD. Our word of the day today was "his". It was a pronoun that replaced a boy's name. It was a rule breaker, because the "s" said the sound of "z". It was not a popular word family. After music, lunch, and recess, we came back to the classroom. Mrs. Myers read the story, Oink. It was about two pigs who were happy, but their neighbors were not. We learned how to retell the story using a GO map organizer. We sorted the story into beginning, middle, and end. We sorted the story elements into characters, setting (when and where), problem, events, and solution. After the parts were sorted, we retold the story using the words - first, next, then, next, then, last. After our lesson, we listened to the story, Pigs, by Robert Munsch. He is an author that we will study in October. The story was so funny and had a surprise ending. After the story, we brainstormed words that would belong on the "pig of -ig". Mrs. Myers recorded the word, and we sang them in a song. It was a popular word family. Then, we had reading workshop time. Mrs. Myers gave us a new folder to keep our reading log in. We also got our reading workshop activity packet, but Mrs. Myers is going to tell us about it on Monday. Finally, it was time for our writing workshop project. We met with Mrs. Lauber's class and made groups of three students. Then, we looked at the facts we wrote yesterday about pigs. As a group, we picked the fact that we thought was the most interesting. Then, we used the laptop computers to type and print our sentence. We learned how to type capital letters, use the space bar, and use return to move down in our document. We illustrated our typed fact when we were finished. Mrs. Myers is going to hang our pig facts in the hallway with our pig art projects, and she is going to make a class book with our facts for our classroom. Then, we went out to recess. When we got back, we had centertime. If we finished all four learning centers, we got to finish our FUN FRIDAY choices. We had so much fun! It was a very busy day! We can't wait to share the sign language, Spanish, French, and Italian word for the word pig with you. Have a great weekend!