Naming Words with The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

    We reviewed naming words. Then the students found objects in the classroom. They had to tell us the naming word and classify it as a person, place, or thing. They found:

a computer-thing,

the class library-place,

and a friend-person.

    Then we read The Jacket I Wear in the Snow stopping to discuss the naming words on each page and classifying them as a person, place, or thing. Then we used interactive writing to write the naming words and label the clothes on our girl cut out and wrote about what we wear in the snow.

    When I take our writing down, I will make them into a class book and add to our class library for the students to read.

Oh the Things You Can Learn with Cupcakes!!!

We read If You Give a Cat a Cupcake. We talked about how heat causes change. We made cupcakes and wrote and illustrated the cupcakes before and after we baked them.

We made a cupcake glyph to answer the following questions: What is your favorite kind of cupcake? How old are you? Do you like baking?.

We learned about a baker's job and decorated our cupcakes.

We illustrated and order the events from the story.

We wrote how to decorate a cupcake.

Then we ate our cupcakes!

The Mitten

We read The Mitten by Jan Brett. The students LOVED this story! Everyday they asked me to read it several times. We illustrated and wrote about an animal from the story on a mitten.

We sequenced the animals from the story on a mitten and then labeled the pictures with the animal name and ordinal number for the order they went into the mitten.

We read The Missing Mitten Mystery and created mittens. Then we labeled them by counting by twos. We used our mitten to practice skip counting by 2s. The students also created story maps for The Missing Mitten Mystery in their reader's notebooks.