Scarecrow Week

Our theme this week is scarecrows. Mrs. Myers is back today, but she is still not healthy. Our word of the day today was "said". It was a rule breaker. It was important, because it tells when someone is talking is a sentence. It is also a clue word that we might see quotation marks or talking marks in our sentence. For health today, we had a fire safety lesson with Mrs. Lauber's class. We brainstorm what we already knew about fire safety, fire prevention, and fire preparation. Then, we watched a video of the story, Stop, Drop, and Roll. We listened for new fire rules. At the end, we worked in groups and sorted cards with fire tips into the three groups. Last, we watched a new fire safety video and share a rule with our neighbor. Remember our fire safety homework is due on Friday. After lunch, we read the story, Little Scarecrow Boy. He had lots of different feelings in the story. After the story, we made personal connections to the feelings the character had in the story. We used a connection paper to write and draw. We circle the feelings that were the same. We had reading workshop, and Mrs. Myers read with boys and girls one at a time. Then, it was centertime. We only have three centers this week, and an art center. In the writing center, you have to write a story using the characters, setting, and problem that Mrs. Myers gives us about a scarecrow. We have to write a solution. In the games center, we are building three scarecrows out of parts for the -ar, -ad, -all word families. We are recording the words we make. In the sentence strips center, we have word of the day words on scarecrow cards. We have to practice spelling the words using mixed up letters and record them by their word shape. In the art center, we are making a giant scarecrow using color patterns. After centers, we read the story, The Scarecrow's Hat. We learned many new vocabulary words. The words we learned, by listening to the story were - swap, trustworthy, benefit, grateful, relief, delighted. Ask me what these words mean. Then, it was time for a quick math lesson. Mrs. Myers put a giant numberline on the floor. We used the numberline on our desk. We had scarecrow puppets to jump adding sentences on the numberline. We found the sum. We will practice more numberline addition for morning work tomorrow. At the end of the day, we went to art!