Groundhog Week

Our theme this week is groundhogs. Today we were trying out a new daily schedule. Our day began the same. Our word of the day today as "did". It was a rule follower, because it was a CVC word. The word family today was -id. It was popular! We can use the word in the contraction "didn't". After recess, we had reading workshop and guided reading. Also during his time in our schedule, we will have game time with our group. Today after reading workshop, we played dice word game. We rolled a die and had to find a word in the room with that many letters. We recorded on our game sheet. We will keep playing until we get a winner. After lunch and recess, we had language arts. We read the story, Substitute Groundhog. Then, we worked on retelling the story using pictures. We worked in groups with Mrs. Lauber's students. Each group had a picture from the story. We wrote about that story event on a sentence strip. Then, we put ourselves in order from the beginning of the story to the end. Last, we read our sentences strips in order to retell the story as a group. Then it was centertime. We had four new groundhog centers. In the games center, we are sorting word wall words into "rule breaker" and "rule follower". In the sentence strips center, we are sorting words with consonant blends into the group they belong (blends with "s", blends with "t", etc..) In the writing center, we wrote a letter to a groundhog of choice. We also learned to address an envelop. The last center was the poetry center. We practiced reading a groundhog poem. We each had a turn to be the leader. Then, we found nouns and verbs in the poem and listed them on our sheet. At writing workshop time, we read the story, Geoffrey Groundhog Predicts the Weather. We learned how to write a newspaper article using the "W" questions - when, who, where, what, why, how. Tomorrow, we will finish our stories and add an illustration. At math today, we worked on subtraction groundhog story problems. At the end of the day, we had art!