It's Friday!

Our word of the day today was "no". It looks like "on" backwards. It was a homonym for the word "know". The word "no" was a rule breaker with a twist, because the "o" says his name without a "magic letter" to help. In the morning, we had two special visitors. Mrs. Myers' daughter, Madeline, visited and did morning meeting and word of the day with us. Mrs. Craig was our second visitor. She listened to us sing some of our song and poetry folder songs. After library, lunch, and recess, we heard the story, Three Bears' Christmas. We compared this new version to the story, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We also made lots of predictions as we read, but the author tricked us sometimes. Ask us how the story was tricky. Then, we went to second grade to meet with our computer buddies. We learned how to use the draw program to made a snowman to match our Frosty acrostic poems from last week. Then, we came back to our classroom and finished our learning and art centers. For writing workshop today, we brainstormed the five different ways we can write a "grab the reader" beginnings. (setting, question, quotation, something important, onomatopoeia). Then, we listened to the beginning of lots of holiday stories. Mrs. Myers had us move to the area of the classroom that showed the kind of beginning the author used. Some books had two different kinds of beginnings. At the end of the day, we earned a Dr. Suess movie. It has been a long week with lots of indoor recess. With Christmas just around the corner, the boys and girls earned an extra reward. We will continue our holiday theme next week!