Monday, October 15, 2007

Today we did interactive writing. Cassie came up with today’s sentence. We counted the number of days until Halloween. Our sentence was: Halloween is sixteen days away. Children took turns writing the words on the chart paper. Everyone copied the sentence on his or her own. Every Monday we have a spelling pre-test. This week’s words have a short e sound. Now we have learned all of the short vowel sounds. During Reader’s Workshop, we learned a new strategy: look for chunks! Now we have another tool in our reading toolboxes to help us when we get to a tricky word. In P.E., we had centers such as: medicine ball, chicken’s coop, therapy ball, scarves, playground balls, football, fluffy balls, gator balls, and soccer balls. We had a great day at school.