Pumpkins! (day 4 and 5) and some other stuff…

Here is a recap of day 4 and 5…. Day 4 We read our Big Book out loud together and then used sentence strips to sequence the details of the story: I then had students come to the front of the room and hold the strips up so we could read them.  We then wrote [...]

Pumpkins! (day 3)

Not much to report today–I almost didn’t post!  I don’t have any photos for this post because we tied up some loose ends.  We read aloud our predictable chart, we will do cut-up sentences tomorrow with them.  We also read our Big Book again, and this time we played “Guess The Covered Word”.  I covered [...]

Handwriting Helpers

I have three children in my class this year who for one reason or another have difficulty in writing their first and last names.  I was thinking about the different things I could try, and then I thought of this one: I got a plastic pencil box and put their name on it.  Then I [...]

Pumpkins! (day 2)

We continued our pumpkin theme today…it was a very low key day!  No amazing ideas to report here from todays lessons!  We finished our Predictable Chart, “A Pumpkin is…” : We read a book out pumpkins and at the end of the book, it listed some of the other colors that pumpkins could be like….blue, [...]

Pumpkins! (day 1)

We started our unit on pumpkins today.  It will continue this week, skip a week (so we can learn about the farm) and then pick up again after our trip to the apple orchard/pumpkin patch. We began our day by taking a look at our new pocket chart poem: (One of the children noticed it [...]

Apple Day (day 5)

Here is what we did on day 5 of apple day… We predicted whether or not we thought the apples we had would float or sink.  Before testing the apples in the water, we talked about why or why not the apples would float or sink. We then made a graph to show our predictions… [...]

Updated Literacy Work Stations

Here are some of the new activities I have put into our Literacy Work Stations this week: We now have a Magnet Work Station.  I placed an upper and lower case version of each letter into 2 separate pencil boxes (for 2 children to use).  I also used Microsoft Words’ Word Art to create the [...]

Apple Day (day 4)

Today we got to make our Apple Happy books.  I had each child read with either me or my assistant and we stamped their books when we were done.  It was also very cute to hear them–some of my more vocal children were very quiet when reading and some of the soft spoken ones were [...]

Apple Day (day 3)

Well we didn’t get done nearly everything I wanted to get done because my kids found out it is my birthday today and they were more interested in that!  They made me write about myself in our Morning Message today–I feel so selfish doing that! They said that because I write about their birthdays in [...]

Apple Day (day 2)

We had so much fun today reading and learning about apples.  We again read our big book “Apples” by Melvin and Gilda Berger.  Today, we looked for seasonal words: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer and highlighted these words in the book.  I store them in these large envelopes labeled with the title of the book and [...]