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.

Oceans of Fun!

We reviewed animal characteristics and created a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast Great White Sharks with Orca Whales. Then students created their own.

We acted out Hungry Shark and practiced subtraction stories. Then we played a game with goldfish crackers where we spun the fish spinner to determine the number of goldfish we need and then spun the shark spinner to determine how many fish were eaten. Then we wrote the subtraction sentences.

We read In The Deep Blue Sea by Deanna Jump. We created a tree map of adjectives, nouns, and verbs from the story. Then students responded through writing by using the pattern from the story.

Naming Words

This week during our shared reading of the book We Like Ice Cream by Joy Cowley, we focused on naming words. The students learned that naming words (nouns) are a person, place, or things. We charted and categorized the naming words from story on a tree map. Then we brainstormed and created circle maps of naming words. On Friday, the students created naming words flip books.