Continue to Help the Earth

Today was the last day of our Earth Day theme. We want to remember to work to help the Earth everyday, though. Our word of the day today was "run". It was a rule follower, because it followed the CVC rule. We read the words on the "sun of -un". The word run is a verb. To change the word to past tense, you write ran. After recess, we had our first performance of our Earth Day Reader's Theater. Mrs. Cooley and Mrs. Baker enjoyed the first group's performance. After lunch and recess, Miss Sementelli read the story, The Lorax. We listened to see how the tree were cut down during the story. After the story, we made a chart to show the effects the trees had on the whole Earth. The trees effected the air, the water, and the animals on the planet, especially when they were all cut down. Trees are very important to all of us! We wrote down five ways to help the earth on our own. Then, we had make-up centertime. If we finished early, we worked on reading and writing workshop. Mrs. Myers conferenced with us and typed our bug point of view stories. She is sending many of them to the Junior Dispatch for publishing. Next, we had our second Reader's Theater performance. Mrs. Plymire's class enjoyed group two's performance. We were so excited! Then, it was time for music. After music, Miss S. read the sequel to Michael Recycle called Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug. Finally it was time to release our butterflies. Check out the butterfly blog to see how it went. At the end of the day, we heard a story called, My Class is Going Green, written by a kindergarten class. We brainstormed ways to help the Earth while at school. It was a wild and crazy day. We are so excited for the warm weather weekend! Next week's theme is plants!