A Scare-crowy Day

Our word of the day today was "all". It was a rule breaker, because the "a" said the sound of "short o". It was a very popular word family. We recorded the words on the "ball of -all". We learned that "-aw" also says the same sound. In math today, we practiced estimating in our jar. It's when you make a smart guess by comparing something you know to something you don't know. Today we estimated tiny pinecones. There were 55 in the jar. No one had it perfect, but lots of us had between 40 and 60 as a guess. YEAH! We went to music, lunch, and recess. In music we practiced singing our class song. Ask me to sing it for you tonight. After recess, we read the story, Jeb Scarecrow's Pumpkin Patch. After the story, we practiced retelling the story on mini GO maps at our tables. We retold the story using the pattern - when, who, where, first, next, then, next, then, last. We learned that it is very important to start a retelling with our when, who, and where. The who is the character we meet only at the beginning. Ask me to tell you the story of Jeb Scarecrow tonight! Then, we had reading workshop and guided reading. We are checking our packets to make sure we are following directions. Then, we played scarecrow BINGO to practice our word of the day words. Then, it was time for writing workshop. It was computer day. We each got a computer and took it into the big, first grade area. We had a partner from Mrs. Lauber's class. We wrote a class story, each building a part around our circle. We had an exciting beginning, told the when, who, where, and then added lots of events, problems, and a solution. We will be making our story into a book. We had a little bit of a computer problem, but it all worked out. We had our extra recess finally for September. Last, we had a tiny centertime and Ms. Anderson came to our classroom for guidance. She taught us about the stop light for problem solving. We practiced using the steps of the stoplight when we have a problem with a friend. She also taught us to stop and take a few deep breaths before we try to solve a problem, so we don't feel so frustrated. We hope we don't have any problems, but now we know what to do! Don't forget, we have an assembly tomorrow morning. Wear Roundtown PROUD!