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.

Field Trip!

What fun!!!!

Retelling!

Today we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  This was a crowd favorite.
We worked on retelling the story using props and the words, first, then, next, last.
We also discussed problem and solution.

I can retell the story to my partner!

Today we continued our unit in measurement. We started learning about telling time on an analog clock.  We played match my clock.
The children need to identify the hour hand, minute hand, and be able to tell time to the nearest hour. APs will be earned for children who can tell time to the nearest half hour.
We also learned this song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBvmO7NgUp0




Thank you so much for sending in LEGO flats and materials for our classroom store!




HOMEWORK WENT HOME TODAY! :)