Bug Week!

This week our theme is bugs. We were excited this week to welcome a new Millersville student to our classroom. She will be here for three weeks and do some teaching. Her name is Miss Sementelli. This morning, we also had a substitute while Mrs. Myers was with the other teachers for training. Mrs. Myers stopped in to work with a few of us during the morning. Our word of the day today was "show". It was a rule follower, because it had a consonant digraph and a diphthong -ow. It was a verb in our sentence today, but it can also be a noun. Later in the morning, we heard the story, Ant's Day Off. We learned that an author writes in different points of view. Today's story was written in the ant's point of view. Point of view is who is telling the story. Then, it was time for lunch and recess. After lunch, we had center time first. In centers this week, we are practicing phrasing, consonant blend, plurals, and character's feelings. When Mrs. Myers came back, we read the story, An Ant's Day Off. Before the read the story, we practiced predicting using only the title, author, cover, and the first two pages of the story. Then, we made three predictions about what would happen next in the story. We had to prove where we got the idea for our prediction in the because part of our worksheet. Next, we had math. In math today, we were practicing our double digit addition and subtraction fact fluency. We had board team races. Table number three won at the end of the game. We had a close contest though! At writing workshop time, we listened to the story, BUZ. It was told from the bug's point of view. After the story, we practiced telling what objects around the room would say if they were talking. We told from the point of view from a desk, a marker, and the map. Next, we made a circle and played bug hot potato. If the music stopped and we were holding the bug, we had to go into the middle and draw a bug card from the pile. Then, we had to say something from the bug's point of view. Others got to share, too. This was practice for our writing story tomorrow. We are going to write an adventure from a bug's point of view. We are going to decided what bug we want to be tonight!