Kevin Henkes Week

First, I want to apologize for the lack of blog on Friday. After typing the boys and girls message twice, it never posted. Sorry! Our theme this week is Kevin Henkes. He is an author and illustrator. Our word of the day today was "name". It was a rule follower, because it followed the CVCe rule. It was a noun. The -ame family can be written as -ame or -aim. Today we had two Millersville University students in our classroom. Ask us about it! They will be here for the next four weeks. Later in the morning, we had guided reading and reading workshop. At game time, we worked independently at stretching penguin words to match pictures. We will play a game with our group tomorrow, using those words. After lunch and recess, we had a fact sort using facts from Kevin Henke's life. Mrs. Myers hung up questions about Kevin Henkes. Then, she gave us cards that had all the fact answers. We had to predict what question our card answered. Then, we went to Kevin Henkes webiste and read his biography. We checked our answers. We had all "thumbs up"! It was great! We learned so many facts. Then, we had a center tour of our Kevin Henke's centers. In the games center, we are sorting coins into Lilly's purple plastic purses for -or, -ar, and -ur sounds. In the Read the Room center, we are proofreading words Lilly spells wrong from around our classroom. In the listening center, we are listening center, we are listening to the story, LIlly's Purple Plastic Purse. We had to tell three character traits of Lilly and make a character collage of them using magazine pictures. In the writing center, we are sorting the problems and solutions from Kevin Henke's stories. Then, we are writing a solution to a mouse problem of our own. At math time, we did a brainstorm about shapes. We knew lots about them. Then, Mrs. Myers read the story, Where's a Square. Finally, Mrs. Myers gave us each a pipe cleaner to make two dimensional shapes out of. We added labels for each shape in our Math Dictionary. We learned the shapes circle, square, rectangle, triangle, rhombus, trapeziod, hexagon. We also learned the words angle and attribute. We will continue learned about these shapes tomorrow. At the end of the day, we had phys. ed and sharing! We are excited for Kevin Henke's week!