Monday Marvels

I read the book, Goldisocks and the Three LiBEARians. We were able connect the book to choosing just right books. We will work some more on that tomorrow. I introduced our first academic vocabulary word, genre, and learned that it meant the type of writing. We broke genre down into fiction (make believe) and non fiction(true/facts) and poetry, which can fit into both. We also learned that under non fiction there is biography, autobiography, and informational texts. We learned under fiction, there is historical fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, mystery, science fiction and traditional literature (or traditional tales: fairy tales, folktales, legends, myths) We identified books in our classroom library that fit under each of these categories. We will continue to work on this all week.

In math, 1st graders practiced number writing while 2nd graders reviewed telling time and counting coins. Tomorrow, they will get their 1st math menu.

During writing, we began our ABC books. We are also writing a class ABC book: The ABC's of school.

And...we had a tornado drill. Phew!!!! That's a lot!