Whistle for Willie

We are working on possessive apostrophes and commas in a list for grammar. We took the opportunity with the cute story of "Whistle for Willie" to practice this grammar skill.  The students used Ezra Jack Keats art work from the story and construction paper to create the characters from the story.  We later wrote about them using the apostrophes in the work.  The children were very creative.  I gave no instructions. They just created!  They were so engaged in this and excited to write about Willie and Peter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson 22 Amazing Animals Mini-Books

Our story this week contained amazing animals.  Each student was to choose three animals from the story they thought were amazing and find two facts to support their opinion.  They illustrated and recorded their mini-books.  This is a process that helps them find text evidence to support their opinions, comprehension questions, or ideas they have about in text.

Journeys Textbook Story

by Dillian

by Kinsley

by Jaycee

by Synamen

by Clover

by Jordan

By Taylor

by Braiden

by Declan

by Sophie

by Mia

Dr. Seuss' Birthday

We suspended our weekly lessons to do some "Seuss" learning. The students went on a "rhyming word" scavenger hunt in our library of Dr. Seuss books. They wrote a list of words they read and discovered. They transferred them to a chart and onto their hats. They completed a directed drawing of the Cat in the Hat. They are learning about commas in a series so they wrote a sentence with a long list of items the Cat dropped in the book. We highlighted "secret stories" in a biography on Dr. Seuss and read it with a partner then me. Later in math we review our number to 120. Using a Power Point timed show the students followed the directions to create a "Thing 1" picture. Later we did buddy reading with a friend using the Dr. Seuss books. Busy, busy, busy today!