Saturday, March 17, 2012

Writing Workshop this Week!

This week we worked on the Five Finger Planner sheet to help us think of ideas and parts of our stories. Some great topics below!
Going to Florida

Being Sick

The First Day of School

The Solar System

Going Skiing

Water Investigation

This weeks Science Investigation focused on Erosion! Ask you child to tell you what we did in this experiment! What happened to the hills we built with sand? We did we learn about trees and walls near beaches? How powerful can water be?

Mold Gardens!

We have been making observations and recording changes in our Mold Garden journals!



not many changes

many changes

Shared Reading

During Shared Reading Time we have been reading the following charts. Some of the poems we have illustrated and put in our Poetry binders. During Daily 5 we like reading our poems and song charts with friends. You can see below the chart some of the word work we have been doing. We are experts on word families!
We underlined words that end with the ER sound. We noticed that you can't hear the e!

We brainstormed words with the ill chuck! This is easy for us because we have Will in KC!

We always think of Brooke when we want to spell book! We worked on the ook chunk!

This chart is a poem many of us learned in preschool! We worked on the ed chunk!

This is a poem everyone knows!!! We worked on the ig chunk and the sight word this.

The Queen of Ten

The Queen of Ten came for a visit!! We were happy to see her.



Similie Project with 3T

S...is for Sebastian!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Eric Carle Alphabet

Thanks for making Bates In Bloom such a great night!! The children were so excited to share all the things happening in our classroom. The slideshow below captures the class in action making our Eric Carle Alphabet!

What did we Learn about Eric Carle?

Eric Carle Alphabet



























Sunday, March 11, 2012

Writing Workshop


We read the story Henry's Show and Tell by Nancy Carlson. In this story Henry is feeling very nervous about sharing in front of his kindergarten class. We noticed that Nancy Carlson used many feeling words and feeling pictures. 
We are learning that good writers tell how they are feeling in their stories . We made a Strong Feelings Chart. At writing time this week many children added how they felt.