Wednesday, September 10, 2008

This morning we looked at the self-portraits we made yesterday. Then we came up with “How many…” questions and answered the questions by counting the pictures. Some of the questions were: How many children? How many glasses? How many are outside? How many are buying toys? How many boys? How many girls?

We met Teddy today! He is very shy so he doesn’t talk. He has been in the class the whole time and we didn’t even know it! Teddy wants to learn all about first grade and make friends. Ms. Stern allows Teddy to sit with a friend when they are making good choices and working hard. Isabella thinks Teddy is cute. Bartosz likes his sweater. It has a star on it.

During Reader’s Workshop, some people shared their favorite books. Darren shared his favorite story, Rumbles Christmas Magic, Emily shared Disney’s Princess Collection, and Mia shared The Midnight Unicorn. Today we learned that we will have private time to read (when we read by ourselves) and partner time (when we get to discuss the books that we read). Kaitlyn thought partner time was cool. She worked with Sammy. They talked about their books and read them to one another. We also talked about our favorite places to read. Many children prefer to read in their rooms on chairs or in their beds.

We learned another poem today. It was our third poem. The name of the poem is Alan’s Apples. We read it together on the Smartboard, highlighted the short a words, and then put a copy in our poetry journals.

We had Writer’s Workshop. We learned that writers choose the paper that they need. Some people need more lines and some people need more space to tell their stories through pictures. Yesterday, we learned that “When you’re done, you’ve just begun.” That means we will add more details to our pictures, we will add more words, and then start a new piece.

Tomorrow is Patriot Day. We are all going to wear red, white, and blue to school.