Turkey Day

Our word of the day today was "these". It was a rule breaker, because the "s" said the sound of "z". It had a CVCe pattern, though, so we used our magic "e" wand to show how it changed the first vowel. We practiced more turkey songs today. We have so many songs to sing at our first grade feast on Monday. After music, lunch, and recess, we practiced sorting facts and opinions about turkeys. We listened to a statement and decided with claps if it was a fact statement or an opinion statement and added the facts and opinion feathers to our fact and opinion turkeys. Then, we went into the hallway and used the Smartboard and took a quiz with Mrs. Lauber's class about turkey and Thanksgiving facts. We knew 13 answers out of 20. We know lots of facts about turkeys. We learned some new facts and turkeys, too. We learned that Benjamin Franklin tried to change our national bird to the turkey. Abraham Lincoln tried to change the date of Thanksgiving. We learned that Minnesoda produces the most turkeys. We learned that Israel eats the most turkeys each year. Then, we had reading workshop and centers. Mrs. Myers is still reading with us one at a time. At writing workshop today, we learned to write a poem called a cinquain. We had to choose a focus related to Thanksgiving. Then, we listed adjectives, nouns, verbs, and synonyms for our poem. We will take the poems home tomorrow for you to read. At the end of the day, we had a guidance lesson. Miss Anderson taught us about the green circle. We will share all about it at home with our HOME work.