From Kids to Pilgrims

Our word of the day today was "up". It was a rule follower. The word "up' belongs in the -up family. It wasn't popular, but we find the word "up" as a chunk in lots of words. The word up is a describing word. It describes a verb, so it is called an adverb. At lunch, ten friends joined Mrs. Myers for lunch in the classroom. They used the 50 point pass from doing their Rah! Rah! homework. We had so much fun eating and laughing together. We listened to loud music, too! After lunch, we did our pilgrim unit with Mrs. Lauber's class. In the big area, we brainstormed what we knew about the first Thanksgiving and our Thanksgiving. We brainstormed about the foods eaten, the activities, and who was involved. Then, we came back to our classroom and made a venn diagram of the information on the board. We made our own venn diagrams, too. To help us with our facts, we read the story, Thanksgiving Is... Check them out! Then, we played a new game called DYNAMITE. We practiced our word family words from the clothesline in our classroom. We pulled a word out of the DYNAMITE can. If we could read the word, we stayed in the game, unless we pulled the DYNAMITE card! Elizabeth was our winner today! Then, it time for writing workshop. We reviewed what good content means. We focused on adjectives today. First, Mrs. Myers read the story, Plump and Perky Turkey. We listened for the adjectives in the story. Then, we looked at a photograph of a turkey and helped Mrs. Myers record adjectives to describe her turkey. Then, we worked in groups with our own picture of a turkey to describe using adjectives. Last, we typed our adjective sentence with a partner. We will use our sentences for a game on Friday. At the end of the day, we had our second center of the week. Mrs. Myers introduced the the art center. We are making a handprint and footprint turkey. Mrs. Myers will not be here tomorrow! NO BLOG!