Ways to figure out a new word.
Reviewing tools...
1. Look at the first and last letter.
2. Make a guess.
3. Look at the picture for clues.
4. Brain warm up. Look at the title and cover of the book for clues.
Today's new tool is...
5. Take a book walk! It is like a movie preview and gets you ready to read a book just like a preview gets you ready to watch a movie. Look through the book and get to know it, look at the cover, maybe see a few words you know, see what the story might be by looking at the pictures. Whitney modeled a 'book walk' by looking at a book called "From Caterpillar to Butterfly"
"Your job today is to do a book walk. Guess what the book is about and then you can go back later and read it and check yourself."
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Thursday Morning
Good Morning!!
Today is Thursday October 1, 2009
We will have menu time.
We will have snack and recess.
We will have reading workshop
We will have lunch and recess.
We will have read aloud.
We will have writing workshop.
We will work more with maps.
We will be geographers.
We will have fun!!
Love,
Whitney
Morning Mystery Word:
POEREU
Tonight is the sleepover from 6:00 - 8:30. We will be there for two and a half hours, eating pizza, showing our talents, dancing, playing with a parachute, and other fun activities.
Sharing tomorrow is something from a tree. Anything from a tree that is not dangerous or too messy.
Starting next week, Whitney would like it if people would bring in slippers. This will help keep the room clean as it gets more and more muddy outside this winter. Changing into slippers will also help with the transition from recess time to school time. Any indoor footwear will work: crocs, sturdy socks with bottoms on them, slippers, etc.
Before menu groups the class pretended their bodies were planet earth. They talked about where the North Pole would be (the top of their heads) and the South Pole (their feet) and the Equator (in the middle, where a belt would go). Then they learned two new terms: northern hemisphere (all the land and water north of the equator) and southern hemisphere (all the land and water south of the equator). Then they played "Simon Says". "Simon says touch the equator!"
Morning Mystery Word Answer: EUROPE
Today is Thursday October 1, 2009
We will have menu time.
We will have snack and recess.
We will have reading workshop
We will have lunch and recess.
We will have read aloud.
We will have writing workshop.
We will work more with maps.
We will be geographers.
We will have fun!!
Love,
Whitney
Morning Mystery Word:
POEREU
Tonight is the sleepover from 6:00 - 8:30. We will be there for two and a half hours, eating pizza, showing our talents, dancing, playing with a parachute, and other fun activities.
Sharing tomorrow is something from a tree. Anything from a tree that is not dangerous or too messy.
Starting next week, Whitney would like it if people would bring in slippers. This will help keep the room clean as it gets more and more muddy outside this winter. Changing into slippers will also help with the transition from recess time to school time. Any indoor footwear will work: crocs, sturdy socks with bottoms on them, slippers, etc.
Before menu groups the class pretended their bodies were planet earth. They talked about where the North Pole would be (the top of their heads) and the South Pole (their feet) and the Equator (in the middle, where a belt would go). Then they learned two new terms: northern hemisphere (all the land and water north of the equator) and southern hemisphere (all the land and water south of the equator). Then they played "Simon Says". "Simon says touch the equator!"
Morning Mystery Word Answer: EUROPE
Thursday
Good Morning!!
Today is Thursday October 1, 2009.
We will have menu groups.
We will have snack and recess.
We will have reading workshop. (See Leigh Ann to help during this time)
We wil have lunch and recess.
We will have read aloud. (Just finished Ivy and Bean and hopefully starting Peter Pan today)
We will have writing workshop.
We will work more with maps.
We will sing and dance.
We will be GEOGRAPHERS.
We will have fun!! Love, Whitney!!
Morning Mystery Word:
POEREU
Today is Thursday October 1, 2009.
We will have menu groups.
We will have snack and recess.
We will have reading workshop. (See Leigh Ann to help during this time)
We wil have lunch and recess.
We will have read aloud. (Just finished Ivy and Bean and hopefully starting Peter Pan today)
We will have writing workshop.
We will work more with maps.
We will sing and dance.
We will be GEOGRAPHERS.
We will have fun!! Love, Whitney!!
Morning Mystery Word:
POEREU
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