Wednesday, November 28, 2007

We are working on writing memoirs. A memoir is a piece of writing that is about something that happened in your life. This afternoon some children shared their memoirs that they wrote. Some people wrote about special trips that they’ve taken, some people wrote about important people and memories, and some wrote about objects that meant a lot to them. Today we earned a prize in art. We earned 5 stars by being good and listening carefully in the art room. Our prizes were erasers that we got to keep. We got to choose the ones we wanted. During Reader’s Workshop, Ms. Stern reminded us to chunk words together to help us read smoothly. She reminded us to think of “peanut butter and jelly.” Good readers sound like they are speaking so we really sound like we are saying “peanutbutterandjelly.” At the end of the day we earned 2 more marbles: one for being so good in art and the other for concentrating and using our time wisely during writing. We can’t wait to have our Charlie Caps party! On Monday, we are going to watch a G rated movie and have pizza. We’re also going to have “kids teach the teacher.”