Isabella was our child of the day and she read a book by Laura Numeroff: If You Give A Pig A Party. She said that it reminded her of parties she has gone to and that her connection helped her to make predictions as to what might happen in the book.In reading we worked more on asking questions. We talked about questioning stems (I wonder....I'm confused....why...how....when....) and we created a Wonder Box for questions they have about the personal item I showed them-a jar that is special to me. We will use this wonder box later as we get further into questioning, but we learned today that as they gather more information, they generate more questions.
In word work we sorted the /s/ words that we brainstormed yesterday. We quickly discovered that if a word begins with the /s/ (s sound), if the second letter is a, o, or u, the first letter is s. So if the second letter is e, i, or y, it could be c or s. There are no /s/ sound words that begin ca, co, cu...those would be the hard c sound. When we finished our sort and created our "rule", Gabrielle said that we could do the same thing with the k sound...and guess what....we are...next week! That's thinking, Gabrielle!!!!
In writing we learned about a technique to add details to our stories called Lead and Stretch. There really are only 3 ways you can add details to your story. You can (a) tell what you are thinking about (b) tell what you said at the time or (c) tell the very next action. I modeled writing a story using this technique, and then they went out and wrote...wow!!! What an improvement. We'll work on this more tomorrow!
In math, I finished unit 6 assestments for seniors while juniors worked on their math menu. Be sure and check out the Blog archives for February and take a look at the video about what the math menu is all about.
We also went to the library today.
Stay warm.....(when can I start saying stay cool?)
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