Thursday, April 10, 2008

This morning we decorated brown paper bags from Shoprite. We drew pictures and wrote important phrases having to do with the Earth. We want people to learn and change their actions in order for our environment to be clean and healthy. The bags are going to get sent back to Shoprite and customers will use them to bag their groceries, as Earth Day gets closer. First, we drew and wrote with pencils first. Since everyone only got one bag, we had to make sure we were careful about our work before we started. Then, we colored our designs. Some of the phrases we wrote were: “Don’t litter, Bring your own bag, Don’t hurt the Earth, Save the Earth, and We only have 1 Earth.” The finished products looked great! Today was our last day of Gym City. We got to use a bubble machine and the car wash was open. Not everyone gets to go to every station. Most people in the class got to be a cop. We’re disappointed that today is our last day. Nevin reminded us to be excited, since we’re going to get to have it again in second grade.

We continued to read Robert Munsch books. Ms. Stern started reading them to us a few weeks ago. So far, we’ve read 15 of them. We’ve made some observations about Robert Munsch as an author: they’re usually silly, there’s always a problem that never gets solved on the first few tries, the main characters are kids, the writing shows all capital letters and stretched out words to show shouting, repeating words and parts, and the stories are usually circular stories that end similarly to how they begin. The three stories that Ms. Stern read today were Stephanie’s Ponytail, The Sandcastle Contest, and Good Families Don’t. Before reading Good Families Don’t, Ms. Stern asked us to predict what it is that good families don’t. Lots of children made predictions…but no one was correct. You might not know what good families don’t…