Lots and Lots of Munsch

Today Mrs. Myers shared that she found out that Robert Munsch is not writing right now. He had a stroke in August and he home recovering. We will send him get well wishes. We started our day listening to him read the story, We Share Everything. It was funny. Our word of the day today was "how". It was a rule follower, because we learned the "ow" diphthong rule. We added words to the "cow of -ow. IT was a popular word family . We learned that -ou also says the same sound. In math today, we did data collection using Robert Munsch books. We looked at the books in groups and tallied to see if the main character was a boy or a girl. Then, we graphed our results on a bar graph. We learned that Robert Munsch uses both characters about half of the time. It was close - 18 boy books to 16 girl books, but we didn't look at ALL the books he has written. After lunch, we had another Munsch. It was called I Have to Go. Before the story, Mrs. Myers showed us a bunch of words from the story, We talked about how we thought they were related, but no one realized that they were all compound words. After the story, we learned that a compound word is when you take one word and you take another word and you squish them. Then you get a new word. We played a game where we each a card with word. We had to find our partner to make a compound word. Then, we had to decide if our compound word made sense when the two words were combined (ex. sun + glasses = glasses you wear in the sun). It was fun. We are going to be on the look out for compound words in our stories we read! As a treat, Mrs. Myers read another Robert Munsch book to us. It was called I'm So Embarrassed. We talked about our own embarrassing stories! At writing workshop time, we add to our list of Robert Munsch's writing style. We noticed that he also uses onomatopoeia in his stories! Then, Mrs. Myers read the story, Make-up Mess. We got busy writing our own stories with Robert Munsch style. At the end of writing time, Mrs. Myers read Thomas' story. It was not finished, but it sounded just like a Robert Munsch book. It was called Crazy Abigail. It had a funny problem, repeating events and words, and onomatopoeias. He will finish the story soon! Mrs. Myers also shared Guy's story. It had a great beginning and used a Robert Munsch story as an idea! At the end of the day, we had phys. ed. What a great day!