A Few Tricks and Treats

Our word of the day today was "use". It was a rule breaker, because the "s" made the sound of "z". We liked the way "magic e" did his job to change "us" into "use". It was not a popular word family. Later in the morning, we went to Mrs. Lauber's class to hear the story, Halloween, by Gail Gibbons. It was a nonfiction story to teach us facts about the history and holiday of Halloween. Before we heard the story, we worked with a partner. We read a new vocabulary card and decided if the word would be in the story or not. During the story, we listened for our word. We stood when we heard it. All of the people who thought their vocabulary word would not be in the story were wrong. Mrs. Myers tricked us. Then, we wrote two new facts about Halloween and one opinion. After recess, Big Shark's Halloween Mystery. We retold the story using a GO map. We practiced telling the when, who, where of the story. We put a star on the problem event and a star on the solution event. Then, we had reading workshop and guided reading. Then, we had centertime. Mrs. Myers introduced our new art center. We are making a skeleton using q-tips for bones. We are so excited. At writing workshop time, we went to Mrs. Lauber's class. Mrs. Myers read us a story that she wrote. It didn't have an ending. We divided into eight groups and each group was assigned a kind of ending. We used a feelings ending, a question ending, a surprise ending, and a something important ending. At the end, we shared our endings and awarded beans to the best ending of each type. We will continue to practice using these new endings for a long time! We finished our day with phys. ed. and Junie B. Jones.