Ice Cream Week!

We are so excited for ice cream week! We were hungry for ice cream all day! Our word of the day today was "bear". It was a rule breaker, because the "ea" vowel pair said the sound of "long a". The word "bare" is the homonyn for "bear". The family was so popular, but you could write the words as -ear, -are, -air, and -ere. A bear is a noun. Later in the morning, we had our last library. We are not taking books home anymore! After lunch, Mrs. Myers showed us the book, From Milk to Ice Cream. It was a nonfiction book. Using the table of contents and title, we had to write down three questions that we thought would be answered in the story. After we shared our questions, Mrs. Myers read the story. We sparkled our fingers if we heard the answer to our question. At the end, we talked about other ways ice cream can be made. Next, we had ice cream centers. In the overhead center, we are reading and following written directions to take a car around a map on the overhead. We also had to practice using our cardinal and ordinal directions. In the magnetic letters center, we practiced making words in the -eam family. Then, we answered riddles from the family. In the poetry center, we read an ice cream poem. We looked for vowel pairs, consonant digraphs, and beginning and ending consonant blends. The last center was the writing center. In the writing center, we wrote a letter to our favorite ice cream shop in York. Mrs. Myers is going to send the letters and hopefully we will get a letter back! Next we had writing workshop time. We are proofreading and publishing our favorite first grade story. We will be making a real book to take home and share using the writing we did in our journals all year. At the end of the day, we had math. We started by reviewing fractions using our Math Dictionary. Then, we practiced fractions of a set of ice cream cones. We worked independently at stations around the room to look at the set and record the fraction of the set for each flavor. Then, we made our own sets on wipe-off boards with a partner. It was a busy day!