Pumpkins Everywhere

Our word of the day today was "can". It was a rule follower with a twist. The "a" said a funny sound when it went with the "n". It was a popular word family. We wrote lots of words on the "can of -an". Today's word was a CVC word. After word of the day, we heard the story Apples and Pumpkins. We compared the things that were the same and different about apples and pumpkins on a venn diagram. We will finish this activity tomorrow for morning work. After recess, many of us went to the Book Fair to buy our books. We can still bring our money tonight or tomorrow morning, if we are going to buy books. In math today, we had math centers. We made growing patterns using candy corn and pumpkins. We used math mats and practiced adding using candy pumpkins. Then, we wrote and drew the math the math sentence. In the domino math center, we practiced the commutative property using dominos. The last center group met with Mrs. Myers to do guided math practice. We will continue these center tomorrow. After lunch and recess, Mrs. Myers read the story, Runaway Pumpkin. It was one of her favorites!!! We liked it, too. After the story, we worked in groups to retell the story on a GO map at our seats. We practiced telling the "when-who-where" from the green shape of the GO map. Ask us to retell the story to you. At reading workshop time, we continued to work on our packet. Many of us are finishing, so check our mail to see what we have been working on this month. Mrs. Myers met with two reading groups. Then, it was centertime. We went to our second language arts center. Finally, it was writing time. We were so excited to learn more about "grab the reader" beginnings. Mrs. Myers read us six more story beginnings. We learned that great authors use - great settings, ask a questions, use an onomatopoeia, tell something important, and use once upon a time to get a story started and excite the audience. We learned that you can combine these together to make a really good beginning. Once upon a time can only be used for fantasy, and we should always combine it with another kind of beginning. Then, we continued to write in our journals. Our stories are getting longer and longer. We were so excited about writing, we almost missed recess! Mrs. Myers is going to start our writing time tomorrow with sharing time, because she sees so many neat things in our journals! At the end of the day, we watched the movie, It's A Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. We listened the beginning of the movie. It was different from the beginning in the story. The book was a "something important" beginning. The movie was just silly events. We ended the day with Shaelyn reading the class a story.