Writing About Bugs

Our word of the day today was "around". It was a rule breaker, because the "a" said the sound of "short u". This word was an adverb. It had two syllables. After recess, we had writing workshop today. We began writing our bug adventures from our point of view. We learned that when you tell a story in the first person point of view, you use the pronoun "I". After lunch, we went to Mrs. Lauber's room and heard the first few pages of the story, Big Bug Surprise. We had to listen and give three character traits of Prunella. Then, we heard the rest of the story and listened to see if we were correct. Next, we went to our fourth center of the week. In the art center, we added the tissue paper to the wings. Next, Mrs. Myers showed us how to write the names of bugs using a letter, syllable, and sound chart. We practiced writing the words together on our wipe-off board. Tomorrow, we will be playing this same game independently. Then, we were off to music class. We were happy to have Mrs. Graves back. At the end of the day, Mrs. Donner came to our classroom. She is our Junior Achievement teacher for five visits. We learned about our families and neighborhoods today. Ask me all about it! We ended the day with bug jokes.