More Morning Messages

What fills your heart?

We drew and wrote about people, places and things that fill our hearts. Displayed on our hearts you will find friends, pets, teachers, parents, grandparents and siblings. It was a sweet activity!

100th Day Of School

We had a great 100th Day of School today! We played "what's in the bag?", hunted for 100 Hershey kisses, made necklaces, created crowns with 100 stars, wore 100 day glasses, and made 100 day books. 

Problem Solvers

New Information With Nonfiction Books

Today our "I can" statement was: "I can learn new things when I read nonfiction books."

We used the book "Children Around The World" to practice active reading and rereading informational books as a way of jumping into new adventures to learn new information. In this book we traveled around the world, stopping in Canada, The United States, Mexico, Brazil, Kenya, China and Australia to learn what life is like I each of these places. We then drew and wrote about a place we have each visited, really thinking about things we saw and heard while we were there. 

This was a fun way for us to explore the following common core standards:

Reading: Informational Text

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

7. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

Reading: Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

3. With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Nonfiction Unit

We are learning about nonfiction text during Reading Workshop. We have explored some great nonfiction, compared fiction with nonfiction, sorted them, created a list of components commonly found in nonfiction,  and read A LOT of them! Check out our list Nonfiction Books Have. . . .