Boots and Mittens Day! To go along with our story The Mitten, we brought in our boots and mittens for a math lesson. We thought of different ways to group/sort our boots and mittens and counted which group had more and less. We also discussed what a pair meant. Some of the ideas the class came up with was to sort the boots by height, shoe laces/no laces, color light/dark and camouflage and not camouflage. For the mittens we sorted them by light/dark, big/small, gloves/mittens. They did great!

Writing our missing sight word of the week "on" on our poem with a partner. After writing the word, they read the poem to each other and read the poem using different voices! There were mouse, monster, fish, whisper and many other voices around the room!

This week is all about boots and mittens! We read the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. Our first activity was to imagine if we had a mitten that could be as big as we wanted it to be, what would be inside of it. "My mitten is so big that a ___________ could fit inside." So many creative kids in my classroom!

We LOVE our stuffed animals! My class earned their 10th surfboard by doing the right thing when coming in from recess. The recess teacher was checking on another class, and they went right to their seats and started reading books quietly without a teacher in the room! What a great compliment the recess teacher gave them to earn their 10th surfboard! I pulled "bring a stuffed animal to school day" out of the mystery envelope of prizes. Below is a couple of pictures of the whole class loving their stuffed animals and a few videos of the students sharing why their animal is special to them. What a fun day! :)









  

We made sponge painted snowflakes today to finish our reading, writing and learning all about snowflakes this week. Once these are no longer wet from the paint I will hang them in the hallway with our snowmen writing for all to enjoy!

Video taken of students sharing their snowman writing!

Video taken of students sharing their snowman writing!

One of our CAFE mini lessons today was working with our word families for the week "-ip" and "-it". We built words in both families using our BIG Zoo Phonics letter cards!

We read a BIG book Time For Kids today. It was all about snow! It was perfect for today because it started to snow right before lunch. Before we read the magazine, we made a list of things we already know about snow. We came up with eight great ideas! We then opened the magazine and read all about snow! After reading and discussing the many different things in the article, we went back to our original list. We went through and circled our ideas that were also found in the article. We counted that four of our ideas were in the article and four of them were not! The class seems to have a lot of fun in the snow and already knew all about it. A new vocabulary word that we learned was the word "blizzard".

"My snowman and I would _______."

    

     If you had a snowman and you could do anything with him/her what would you do? My students completed a writing activity where they wrote a sentence saying what they would do and drew a picture. We shared our writings once everyone was finished. Those will be published in a later post!