Plant Week

Our theme this week was plants. Mrs. Myers wasn't here this morning. Mrs. Reeves came in , but Miss Sementelli was our teacher - yay! Our word of the day today was "does". It was a rule breaker, because the "oe" says the sound of "short u" and the "s" says the sound of "z". After recess, we had reading workshop time. Madison and Ryan gave puppet show book commercials. The Grasshopper guided reading group gave a performance of their play, The Ant and the Grasshopper. After lunch, Miss Sementelli read the story, Tops and Bottoms. We listened for the main idea and supporting details. There were two lessons, but the biggest lesson was "you can only reach your goals if you do hard work. Then, we had a new center tour. In the first games center, you are sorting contractions on a flower and matching it to the two leaves with the missing words. At the second games center, we are using homonyms correctly in sentences and matching a flower with a homonym to a sentence stem. In the Smartboard center, we are listening to two plant books on BookFlix. One is fiction. One is nonfiction. After the nonfiction book, we are making a glossary to show the new vocabulary we learned in the story. The last center is the writing center. We are sorting flowers into a short vowel or a long vowel vase. Then, we had to write the words. At writing workshop time, Mrs. Lauber read the story, Muncha, Muncha, Muncha. We were practicing Focused WOW endings. After the story, Mrs. Myers read 12 different endings. We sorted them into baskets for each type of WOW endings - something important, question, sequel, feelings, surprise, quotation. Then, we had to decide which endings were focus to the main idea of the story! At the end of the day, we had art.