Nonfiction Weather Day

Our word of the day today was "mean". It was a rule follower, because the "ea" vowel pair said the name of "long e". We saw that there were many words in the -ean and -een family. We even saw a word that looked like -ene. The word "mean" has a homonyn for meaning, but they both look the same. After recess, we had a short reading workshop. Mrs. Myers met with 2 guided reading groups. We finished our bossy r games during game time. After lunch and recess, Mrs. Myers showed us yesterday's book - Sergio and the Hurricane and another fiction book called Hurricanes. Then, she showed us a nonfiction book called Hurricanes! We took a picture walk of the book. Then, we made a list on the chart of all the elements of a nonfiction book. We decided that many nonfiction books have photographs, glossary, index, table of contents, boxes, charts, and captions, and headings. Then, Mrs. Myers read most of the story to us. We learned how to read a nonfiction book using one heading at a time and making sure our brain remembers the new facts for each heading before we read a new heading. Ask me how this is like a tennis or baseball machine throwing too many balls. At the end of the lesson, we had to label the parts of the nonfiction book. Then, it was time for centers. We visited our second center of the week. We also worked in our groups for our weather report project for Friday. Mrs. Myers told us that we need to make sure we proofread our work and follow all parts of the directions. At math time today, we did three math stations for shapes. First we reviewed our 2D and 3D shapes using our Math Dictionaries. Then we visited the stations. At station one, we used green triangle books to see how many would cover each 2D shape. At station two, we sorted 2D shapes by different attributes. At station three, we examined the attributes of 3D shapes. Before recess, Mrs. Myers read a different nonfiction story to us called, What's the Weather. We looked for the table of contents and the headings. At the end of the day, we had art. We also said good-bye to Shaelyn. Today was her last day in our classroom. Mrs. Myers hopes we are better listeners tomorrow, because we are not all listening and thinking!