Happy Earth Day!

Today is Earth Day! Earth Day began in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson. We are excited to celebrate our Earth. Our word of the day today was "set". It was a verb. It was also a rule follower, because it followed the CVC pattern. Mrs. Myers had us read the words on the "net of -et". After recess, we had reading workshop time. Mrs. Myers met with the Bear and the Ant and Grasshopper groups at guided reading. We read a Weekly Reader to read with a partner at game time. It was all about Earth Day. Then it was time for lunch and recess. After that, we read our Earth Day Reader's Theater and acted out our parts. We found out that we are performing on Friday for Mrs. Cooley, Mrs. Plymire, and Mrs. Baker. We also began making props for our show. Tomorrow, we will work on reading our parts without a partner. At centertime today, we went to our third center. After we finished our center today, we continued to make our props. We are making posters, costumes, and signs to match our part and scenery. At science time today, we did an exclusion brainstorm. We had to predict what words wouldn't be in the story about Earth Day. We didn't think that bathtub, gluestick, television, and banana would be in the story. Then Mrs. Myers read the story, Just a Gum Wrapper. We heard all of our words from the stories, except gluestick and banana. At writing time today, Mrs. Myers read Abby's bug story. Our lesson today was about focused, WOW endings. We practiced putting focused endings on our stories. At the end of the lesson, we heard Elle's bug story with a focused WOW ending. At the end of the day, we had phys. ed. with Mr. Stiffler. Remember to visit Mrs. Myers' teacher page tonight to fill out the weekly survey tonight. Mrs. Myers needs all the data tomorrow! Mrs. Myers also added a new page to her teacher page. It is called - Our Video Projects. You can view the Earth Day movie we made yesterday at this site! Check it out!!!