This week was all about Elephant and Piggie!
On Monday, we read Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems and learned how to find text evidence. We talked about that if you tell us something about a character in a book (like how they act or feel), you have to prove it! The students practiced this by using evidence to prove that Elephant or Piggie was a good friend. They marked their evidence pages with sticky notes. Then, we learned how to draw both Elephant and Piggie, and practiced! We used this video by Mo Willems which was great practice in direction following.
On Monday, we read Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems and learned how to find text evidence. We talked about that if you tell us something about a character in a book (like how they act or feel), you have to prove it! The students practiced this by using evidence to prove that Elephant or Piggie was a good friend. They marked their evidence pages with sticky notes. Then, we learned how to draw both Elephant and Piggie, and practiced! We used this video by Mo Willems which was great practice in direction following.
Tuesday we read A Big Guy Took my Ball, and then broke into two centers. The first center was finding more evidence that Piggie or Elephant were good friends, and then drawing the scene that showed the evidence. The students also used speech bubbles to practice writing and to show even more evidence. The second center was making a blueprint of a setting for our book, building it, and then retelling the story using puppets. Some students also made the characters out of play-dough. Everyone worked really hard and collaborated so well!
Tuesday we also did our first formal "read to self" time. We read How to Read a Story by Kate Messner, and practiced getting comfy and reading quietly and independently.
Tuesday we also did our first formal "read to self" time. We read How to Read a Story by Kate Messner, and practiced getting comfy and reading quietly and independently.
Wednesday we continued with our Elephant and Piggie centers and rotated. We also completed our RMD sort, reviewed all of our Jolly Phonics sounds, and played outside. We are getting so spoiled by these beautiful fall days!
Thursday started off extra exciting... our class won the Indian Trail Class Tiger Stripe Award! This means our whole class was being extra safe. respectful, and responsible this week. I am so proud of these students! We get to keep Stripes the tiger in our room all week. So of course, the students wanted to build him a house, read to him, and make food for him! We also practiced drawing tigers to hang on his house :)
We wrapped up our Elephant vs. Piggie election unit by voting on who we thought was a better friend and leader. We had real ballots and a voting booth too! We counted and graphed our results and Piggie ended up being our winner.
Last but not least, we did a new type of sound scavenger hunt, where the students had to write the words they found that started with R, M, or D.
We wrapped up our Elephant vs. Piggie election unit by voting on who we thought was a better friend and leader. We had real ballots and a voting booth too! We counted and graphed our results and Piggie ended up being our winner.
Last but not least, we did a new type of sound scavenger hunt, where the students had to write the words they found that started with R, M, or D.
Next week will be all about Thanksgiving! We will be learning about traditions, celebrations, and being thankful. And of course... prepping for our FEAST!