Since our spelling words these next two weeks revolve around singular and possessive nouns, today we began learning about possessive nouns through a fun, quick scavenger hunt, which took about seven minutes for most everyone to finish.
Students worked with their baseball partners to find cards that showed the objects belonging to someone, and they had to write the possessive noun form on their record sheet. For example, if they found "This notebook belongs to Gina" on a notebook, they would have to record "Gina's notebook" on their sheet. Here's another example: if they found the card "This eraser belongs to Kathy" taped to an eraser somewhere in the room, they would record "Kathy's eraser" on their sheet.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Book Clubs- setting first reading goals & sharing predictions
On Wednesday, October 19, we previewed eight different books, so we could begin book clubs on Friday. For each book, we read the back cover, read the first couple pages, checked for comprehension using the 5-finger rule, and ranked the books #1-8 based on which ones seemed the most interesting to each of us--with comments to explain why we ranked the books the way we did.
On Friday, we formed our book clubs based on our top 3 choices and independently recorded predictions about what our book would be about in our reading logs; then we met with others in our book club for the first time to share predictions and make our first reading goals.
In the videos below, you'll find us discussing our predictions and making our first reading goals. The last video features all of us beginning to read our new book club books!
**Note: the videos are in their roughest form and have not been edited. The purpose is to document our learning, share the conversations, and spread the excitement we felt meeting with book clubs in our classroom for the first time of the year!
On Friday, we formed our book clubs based on our top 3 choices and independently recorded predictions about what our book would be about in our reading logs; then we met with others in our book club for the first time to share predictions and make our first reading goals.
In the videos below, you'll find us discussing our predictions and making our first reading goals. The last video features all of us beginning to read our new book club books!
**Note: the videos are in their roughest form and have not been edited. The purpose is to document our learning, share the conversations, and spread the excitement we felt meeting with book clubs in our classroom for the first time of the year!
Pumpkin Glyphs with Kindergarten Buddies - 11/2!
On November 2, we partnered up with our kindergarten buddies in Mrs.Johnson's class to make pumpkin glyphs; we used this sheet to help guide us: http://www.kidscount1234.com/pumpk1.pdf
