Miss Sementelli's Big Day

Today Miss S. taught us for the whole day! We started off morning meeting with a fun game matching homonyms on cards. Our word of the day today was "well". It was a rule follower, because it was almost a CVC word. This word was a homonym - well can be a noun of an adverb. We read the words on the "bell of -ell". Later in the morning, we played a word wall game with Miss S, before we went to music. After lunch and recess today, we read Eats, Shoots, Leaves. Before the story, we practiced putting commas in three sentences on the overhead and read them fluently. Then, we heard the story. It showed the same sentence, but the commas were missing in one of the sentences. The meaning changed for the whole sentence. After the story, we got sentences for the story and found a partner with the matching sentence. We practiced reading both sentences fluently. Then, it was centertime. We visited our second center of the week. Next, we had a science lesson today. Miss S. read us the story Tops and Bottoms. Then, we talked about the parts of a plant that give us vegetables. We learned that plants give us vegetables from it's roots, stem, leaves, fruit, and flower. This is how Bear got tricked in the story. After the lesson, we each got picture card with a vegetable on it. We had to put our card into the correct bowl for where it came from. Next was writing workshop. We read the story, Growing Vegetable Soup. We listened for the verbs in the story and made lists of adverbs that would make the simple story sentences more exciting. We had a huge list of adverbs at the end. Adverbs tell us when, where, how, and how much a verb is happening. We had time to write in our journals. At the end of writing time, Miss S. crowned the Adverb King to Thomas for using 14 adverbs in his story and Adverb Queen to Abby for using 11 adverbs. After last recess, Miss Anderson came for our guidance lesson about dealing with our anger. Ask me the strategies I can use. What is the super secret soup breathing? What is "what's up doc?" These are important for me to use! Enjoy the last day of the heat!!! :)