Wednesday, September 30, 2009

This morning Ms. Stern read us another book by Nancy Carlson called Smile A Lot! The other books that we read by the same author are: I Don’t Like to Read!, How to Lose All Your Friends, and I Like Me! We discovered that Charlie Caps would probably like Smile A Lot because he tells us to do the same thing. The pictures in her books are so colorful and they are also really helpful in telling the story!

We used post-its again during Reader’s Workshop. We were marking our favorite parts or interesting parts while we read. After our private time was over, we got to turn and talk to our partners and explain why we marked our pages. Drew marked a favorite part. Sasha marked an interesting part.

In P.E., we learned how to play blacktop games on the playground that we use during snack recess. Sarah’s favorite game was the animal game. Hunter’s favorite game was Crocodile, Crocodile because Coach Hudson ate him with the little crocodile. Lauria’s favorite was also Crocodile, Crocodile. The crocodiles’ names were Shirley, Jake, and Buster.

Just before lunch, we met Miss Harding. She is going to be coming to our classroom sometimes to learn about first grade. She is in college to become a teacher. Nancy thought she was really nice.

We sorted again during math today. We sorted with two attributes again today using a Venn Diagram. Everyone had a turn showing brothers and sisters. We learned that most people have brothers AND sisters in our class (8 in all). We also learned that 6 people have sisters only and 4 people have brothers only. More people have sisters than brothers. We also did some sharp thinking and discovered that we couldn’t tell the names of the siblings, how old they are, or how many we have just by looking at our chart.

During Writer’s Workshop, we learned how to try our best to spell words and then move on. Anthony D. and lots of other children were able to get a lot of writing done. Victoria, Eesha, and lots of others added details to their drawings to help tell the story to the reader. At the end of the workshop, Ms. Stern showed us Amanda’s and Eesha’s work. They used their time well and remembered to practice what we had talked about! Just about everyone remembered to stay focused and use every minute to write. Ms. Stern’s bucket was overflowing!