Wednesday, May 13, 2009

We started our day with 14 kids. That was the smallest group Ms. Stern ever had! Two children came in late. We ended up having 16 children in school today.

Zoe and Daniel shared their books that they got at Debbie Dadey’s book signing yesterday. They both got two books. One was the same for both of them: Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots.

Ms. Stern read a few books written by one of her favorite authors, Robert Munsch. We read Good Families Don’t, Smelly Socks, Stephanie’s Ponytail, and Get Out of Bed! Rebecca thought his books were hilarious. They are all about silly ideas. Before we read Good Families Don’t, we tried to figure out what it might be. After sharing many predictions, it turned out that we were all wrong!

In math, we used clocks to practice making the time. If the minute hand is on the 12, the time is ___ o’clock. The hour hand is short. The minute hand is longer. Ms. Stern asked us to figure out the where the hands belong after a certain amount of hours passed.

There was a book fair. The books were for sale on the stage in the cafeteria. Lots of children bought books, while others chose toys and erasers. The book sale is going on until 4:30 today.

Today we talked about mealworms. We saw that the eggs had emerged as tiny little larvae. They look just like the other mealworms but much smaller. They have segments but we can’t see them. We wrote our last observations, predictions, and questions. Then we had to do a zoom in diagram of the parts of the mealworm. Last, we worked on the L part of the KWL chart. Emily learned that beetles live for 5-10 days. Carly learned that beetles lay lots of eggs. Nolan learned that beetles get darker as they grow. Bartosz learned that mealworms have six legs. Sammy discovered that mealworms turn black when they die.