Wednesday, May 20, 2009

This morning we worked on telling right from left. We had to figure out the direction of different objects and see if they were to the right or left of one another. Then we worked on ordinal numbers. Some people thought it was easy. Others found it to be a little challenging. Zoe reminded us that our left hand makes an “L” with our thumb and pointer fingers. We also talked about our pledge hand (right) and the hand we use to write with.

Ms. Stern read Purple, Green, and Yellow, written by Robert Munsch. It is about a girl named Brigid who likes to color with markers. She promised her mom not to color on the walls, floor, or herself. Brigid decided to color on herself with markers that don’t come off until “you’re dead or later.” She decides to color herself back to normal. Earlier, Mrs. Caton (the reading teacher) read The Paperbag Princess while Ms. Stern was at a meeting. Everyone thought about their favorite character. Anthony, Darren, and Bartosz’s favorite character was the dragon. Carly’s was Princess Elizabeth. Nolan was going to write about Prince Ronald. He made a text-to-self connection because the prince reminded him of his brother!

We started to talk about a name for Field Day. We agreed that our name should be fun, go along with the theme of Field Day (so we don’t want to be slow!), be appropriate for school, and maybe have alliteration. When we were thinking of names, we had some trouble sticking to those ideas. We had to stop our discussion and revisit it again tomorrow.

Today in music, we listened to the book Dooby, Dooby, Moo and then we played instruments whenever we heard parts of the book. When the cows said “Dooby, dooby, moo” the drums would be played. When the sheep said “Fala la la la” the metalaphones and xylophones were played. The glockenspiels were played when the duck said “Quack, quack, quack.”

During Writer’s Workshop, we started to write our non-fiction facts in an order that would make sense to our readers. Some people already came up with headings for their ideas and others are still working on collecting facts. Sammy and Zoe shared their work at the end of the period.