Weather Week

Our theme this week is weather and seasons. The word of the day today was "too". It was a rule follower, because it had the "boo of -oo" sound. This word has a few popular homonyms - to, too, and two. Later in the meeting, Mrs. Myers had guided reading with three groups, while we had reading workshop and game time. During game time, we practiced our bossy r sound games again, but we had a different envelop from last week. After lunch and recess, Mrs. Myers read the story, Sergio and the Hurricane. We had to decide the author's purpose for writing the story. We actually came up with two good purposes - to tell facts about hurricanes and to teach us a lesson about preparing for hurricanes and not wishing for bad things to happen, just because they seem exciting. Next, we had a center tour and new centers. In the games center, we are sorting raindrops with "hard c" and "soft c" pictures and words on them. In the writing center, we are meteorologists, writing a weather report for the assigned season. In the poetry center, we are reading the poem, Clouds. Then, we are using bendaroos to find the blends, digraphs, -ill family words, and -ow family words in the poem. The last center is the listening center. We are listening to different weather music and visualizing what we think is happening in the song. After we draw the pictures that is in our head, we are writing a story about it! We have a special weather project as the art center this week. We'll find out about it tomorrow! We had music next and after recess, we came back for our weather and seasons lesson of the day. Mrs. Myers gave us a weather journal to use this week. Then, we had to watch a movie about spring and write down three new facts we learned. We did the same thing for summer. Then, we wrote a question for each one about something we still want to learn about spring and summer weather. Mrs. Myers is going to find the answers for us! YAY!