Focused on Fall

Our word of the day today was "word". It was a rule breaker, because "or" said the sound of "er", "ir" or "ur". It was not a popular word family. In was a noun - a naming word. In math, we estimated acorns. Estimation is making a smart guess. We compared ten acorns to our actual estimation. Grace and Mrs. Myers were just right. We had 47 acorns in our jar. After math, we had library, lunch, and recess. Then, Mrs. Myers read us a story called Fresh Fall Leaves. We listened for the verbs in the story. We noticed that all of the verbs had an -ing ending. This means the verb is happening in the present tense - right now! We learned that the verb is called the root word when it has an ending on it. We also learned that sometimes a verb changes when we add an ending. Sometimes we have to add a twin letter to keep the vowels apart. Sometimes we have to kick the magic e away, because the ending does his job. We did a worksheet to match root words and endings. Then we had guided reading and reading workshop. We had centertime next. Mrs. Myers introduced the first step of the art center. We traced and cut giant fall leaves. When it was time for writing workshop, we went to Mrs. Lauber's room. We learned about FOCUS. Focus is like using a camera to block out all of the other things in the picture and zoom into one main subject. In writing, we pick our the main idea of the story and zoom down to only tell the details about that subject. We practiced listening to Mrs. Lauber and Mrs. Myers tell stories. When they lost their focus, we gave them the "stop" signal. Then, we wrote a focused sentence about "fun in fall" with a partner. We will be working on focus all week. At the end of the day, we had an assembly. Students from the high school performed a play for us. It was funny! We also had a guest reader - Ryan Fahs. We ended the day with Junie B. Jones! YEAH!