Pig Week

Our theme this week is pigs. It is a funny theme. The word of the day today was "on". It was a rule follower. It was not popular, but some words do rhyme with it, but they look different. In math today, we had a fun lesson. We sorted by attributes. First Mrs. Myers used students to brainstorm attributes. Then, we sorted shape blocks by size, shape, thickness, and color. Last, we worked in groups to sort bags of pigs by different attributes. We sorted by size, shape, and color. Some groups even found out that you can sort by more than one attribute. After lunch, Mrs. Myers read the story Pig in a Wig. It was funny. We practiced retelling the story using pictures. We used the words, first, next, then, and last to retell the story. Please ask me to retell the story to you tonight. After that, we had new centers about pigs. In the games centers, we sorted pigs onto mud puddles by word family. In the listening center, we heard the story, The Three Little Pigs. We wrote and drew one thing that was the same and one thing that was different from the regular version of the story. In sentence strips centers, we made sentences by adding a setting (when and where) and a verb. In the magnetic letter center, we looked at pictures on pigs and used the magnetic letters to add the beginning and ending sound to the word. Finally, it was writing time, Mrs. Lauber read the story, "Eat!" cried Little Pig. We listened for sound words. They are called onomatopeoia. They add style to a story. Onomatopoeia are words like WOOSH, THUD, and SPLASH. We made a list to use in our own stories. We ended the day with phy. ed. A special event in our classroom today was a new student. Elizabeth Towne joined our first grade classroom. We now have 19 boys and girls.