A Busy Day

We started our day today with a fun game at morning meeting. We practiced sorting and counting our coins as a class around the circle. The word of the day today was "around". It had three syllables. It is sometimes an adverb or an adjective. The word was a rule breaker, because the "o" said the sound of "short u". Later in the morning, we had library. At lunch, Mrs. Myers are with this week's Fabulous Five - Ian, Dawson, Elle, Madison, and Thomas. After lunch, Mrs. Myers read the story, Dandelion. We predicted the author's purpose for writing the story. We decided that she wrote the story to teach us facts and to share her opinion (she liked dandelions). Then, we read the story, The Tiny Seed. This books was fiction. We had to listen for the things in the story that helped the seed grow and the things in the story that hurt the seed. We recorded our ideas on a paper. Weeds like dandelions hurt flowers. Today we visited our third center. Mrs. Myers gave the art center tour today. We are making a giant paper handprint flower. Then, it was time for our district writing assessment. We had ten minutes to brainstorm and plan our story. Then, we had 30 minutes to write our story. At the end, we had 10 minutes to proofread our story. Mrs. Myers will score the stories, and other teachers in the district will score the stories. We will have a conference in a few weeks to see the things we improved this year and set a goal for next year. After recess, Miss Sementelli had a fun math lesson on money. We had money stations around the room. We had to look at the flower at each station. Each flower had money stamped on the petals. We had to count the money and record the total amount on the center of the flower. Miss Sementelli met with each groups to see how we were doing. We are getting good at counting money! We had a fun day! Look for the special project announcement coming home tonight. Please make sure that you visit our weekly survey before Friday!