Earth Week

Our theme this week is Earth Day. Miss Sementelli started our day with an Earth Day game at morning meeting. We had to sort cards into "saving water", "saving trees", and "saving air". Our word of the day today was "three". It was a rule follower, because it had the "th" digraph, and the "ee" vowel pair. Today's word could be an adjective and adverb. We had music at the end of the morning. After lunch, we got the parts to our Earth Day Carol, reader's theater. We each got our own script. We practiced reading our part alone today. We will perform our reader's theater to four classes on Friday. Next, we had a center tour. In the games center, we are making real and nonsense words using a consonant blend and digraph die and matching them to the word families -ay, -ake, -ame, -ar, -ight. In the listening center, we listened to a song from Jack Johnson called the 3R's. We have to make a poster showing what we are learning about the 3R's and then write a nonfiction story about it on the back. In the library center, we read a nonfiction Earth Day book around in a circle. Then, we sorted nonfiction story parts. The last center was the writing center. We are putting missing words into sentence strip facts about Earth Day. Then, we are proofreading the words to see if they are common or proper nouns. We are also proofreading an Earth Day story on the back for capital and lowercase letters. At writing workshop time, we worked with a partner from Mrs. Lauber's class to write a song, commercial, or poem to teach about taking care of the Earth. We will continue to write these fun projects tomorrow. Just before recess, Mrs. Mumme did a money lesson for us on the Smartboard. We have homework to take home and return to Mrs. Myers. At the end of they day, Mrs. Donner came and taught our Junior Achievement lesson about needs and wants. Mrs. Myers read us a story called Save the Earth before we left. It was a fun day.