Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sign and return report cards tomorrow. Spelling test tomorrow. Last day for canned food drive tomorrow.

As usual, we started our day off in morning meeting then quietly came to the room to unpack. Then we came to the floor and did morning message. Our message was about the weather and what it might do today. We identified and circled adjectives, added endings, no excuse words, and compound words in our message. Next, we went to our desk and got out our dry erase boards, markers, and erase and speed wrote the word “said.” To get ready for tomorrow’s spelling test we played a game called Sparkle. After Sparkle we worked on our writers’ workshop stories. Triana finished publishing her book about her friends and shared it with us. We went to the rug after writers’ workshop and read Thanksgiving With the Tappletons. It was a story about a family that everything went wrong for Thanksgiving dinner and they thought their dinner was ruined. However, they problem solve and ate liverwurst sandwiches for their feast. Then we did reading centers. After lunch we did number corner followed by Around the World, an addition game we really enjoy. Then we had character education when we learned about courage and self-control. PE was next then some of us went outside for R2W celebration.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Forgive us, we have not been able to blog lately, which makes us sad. But we have been VERY busy working and have run out of time. We will get back to daily blogging when things slow down. Check back for updates daily!

Our morning started off in morning meeting. Then we quietly came in the room and unpacked at our own desk. Next was morning message where we wrote about being CHAMPS and how to be a better CHAMP. Spelling was next and we worked on telling the difference between “there” and “their.” Mrs. Ray orally said sentences using “there” or “their” and we had to write the correct word on our dry erase boards. We have our spelling test Friday so we will work on it tomorrow also. After spelling we did writers’ workshop. Sam is writing a fiction story called The Runaway Turkey. Daphne is writing a nonfiction book about sharks. Landon is publishing a story about Halloween. Karson is revising a story about her favorite zoo animals. Reading centers was next followed by recess and lunch. We came back from lunch we did number corner and played three rounds of Around the World. Around the World is a game we play to work on our addition facts.