Tuesday, September 23, 2008

This morning we continued to learn about graphs. So far we have learned about bar and pictographs. Today everyone had to sort and count shapes and then make a bar graph showing how many by coloring the boxes. Mia thought the squares would go all the way to the top. It has the most of all the shapes.

During word study we reviewed the short a sound and made a list of short a words. Then we practiced some of our old poems. Next, everyone read My Puppy Buddy. We found short u words.

Recently, we’ve practiced marking pages in our books during private time to show parts that we want to discuss during partner time. Today, Ms. Stern had us mark a page with a post-it when we made a connection to the book.

Ms. Eyer came in to do an activity with us. We played games where we had to find and make words. There were boxes with letters inside. The activity was similar to the magic squares that we did last week. Sometimes, there were 3 letter words. Then there were 4 and 5 letter words. Next, we had to make words out of jumbled letters. Darren thought it was fun because he and Bartosz got to go up to the Smartboard and try to make a word. Here is a clip to a Disney site that has word jumbles like the ones we tried: http://www.disneyclips.com/funstuff/unscramble.html

In P.E. we went outside and learned how to play new games on the blacktop. We played Tunnel Tag in the gym.

During Writer’s Workshop we discussed what good writers look and sound like. Then Ms. Stern asked us to go back to our seats to continue our writing. She took pictures of children who were showing the behaviors that we came up with.