Non-Fiction and Measurement

Today we talked about the non-fiction text feature- titles.
Why authors chose titles?
What are good titles?
Why titles make you want to read the book.

We read a non-fiction book called BARN OWLS.
In that book we saw a title, labels, bold print, and headings.
All very important elements to non-fiction.
It is important that our students are able to identify non-fiction text features consistently and independently.

Two of my four groups today began creating their non-fiction book on owls in a new program called WIXIE. It takes many steps to get into the program, but we did it! Tomorrow my other two groups will work in WIXIE as well. 

In math today, we worked on NON-STANDARD measurement, and we reviewed telling time to the nearest hour.
We measured the children and met NON-STANDARD NOAH. If we don't have a ruler we can use another tool! All of our tools must be the same size and when we measure we LINE UP END TO END. Ask your child to show you. 
We COMPARED (our new measurement word) if we were shorter (math word) or taller (math word) than our classmates using NON-STANDARD measurement.