Monday, October 19, 2009

We started our morning by writing in our journals, just like we do every Monday.

Today we thought about how we have changed as readers. We discussed how we have grown as readers and what our goals are for reading this year. Everyone wrote about one of their ideas. We celebrated our good habits and tomorrow, we will begin using book bags to read “just right books.” Congratulations, Readers!

We saw a performance about monarch butterflies. At the beginning, a butterfly laid an egg. The egg opened and there was a caterpillar inside. There was talk of something “spectacular” that was going to happen and the caterpillar wanted to know what it was. It ate lots and lots of leaves. The caterpillar felt weird. A ladybug gave her advice to keep eating. Then she felt like being upside down so she climbed on a leaf and formed a chrysalis. It was like magic. After a little while, the caterpillar became a butterfly! The butterfly came out and all of the other animals told her to fly. Finally, the monarch took off for Mexico, where she met other butterflies just like her. The performance ended when the butterfly landed on a leaf and laid another egg. Stephen thought the performance was long.

In P.E., Coach sent us to the classroom to get our coats because we were going on the nature trail. The nature trail was fun. We had to cross two bridges to go over water. The water looked like ice. Coach Hudson poked the water with a stick to see if it was ice. On our way back to school, we saw a broken chimney. Some people saw earthworms and chipmunks. Meaghan saw a frog. Jacob thought the best part was when the class jumped over the logs. Hunter liked when we walked across the bridge. Victoria liked when we came back because she was sooo tired! Nancy liked high fiving Coach at the end.

We continued working on our Writer’s Workshop pieces. Today, everyone was supposed to continue fixing up their spelling and add details to our drawings. Some people even started coloring their work!