Pigs, Pigs, Pigs

We started our day learning to say hello in French - Bonjoir. We also learned the french word for pig - cochon. Our word of the day today was "with". It was a rule follower. The "th" was a consonant digraph. It was not a popular word family. After our morning calendar, we went to Mrs. Lauber's room and Mrs. Myers read the story, Life on a Pig Farm. We made a list of facts we learned about pigs. We also learned about the parts of a nonfiction story. We saw the table of contents, captions, glossary, and an index. After recess, it was time for math. We visited two more math centers. Mrs. Myers met with another group. Please check my mail today, to see my math center recording sheet. We went to lunch and recess. After lunch, Mrs. Myers read the story, My Lucky Day. We predicted from the cover wether fox or piglet would have a lucky day. At the end of the story, we found out that piglet had the luckier day. After the story, we retold the story using the event cards. We worked in pairs to organize ourselves in order. Then we retold it. We learned that we must use a character's names when we retell. Then, it was centertime. We finished our fourth center. We also worked on the ears in the art center. After centers, we had reading workshop time. We read and logged our books. At writing workshop time, we listened to the story, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, by Gail GIbbons. It was nonfiction, but it looked a little different. It didn't have a table of contents or photographs. It had lots of facts though. After the story, we recorded two facts to save for a project tomorrow using the laptop computers. We are all excited. We learned that writers write for different reasons. This time, we are writing to teach YOU something new about pigs! At the end of the day, we had art. We worked on our pinwheels for peace. Sunday is International Peace Day!