Learning About World Holidays

We started our day with our Special, Library. After Library we completed our morning work and had our morning meeting. During morning meeting we made a bar graph for the months of our birthdays and answered many questions about the graph. We also worked with our poem and completed place value activities. After morning meeting and first recess, we worked in Reading Groups. Mrs. Peckmann worked with the Magazines and Internet groups today. Both groups worked on their retelling skills with their assigned books. The groups also made many inferences when they answered questions about what they had read. After lunch we used our computer expertise to teach the students in Mrs. Weikert's class how to use the drawing toolbar. We created Christmas trees and ornaments that can be dragged on to the tree. It was wonderful to be a teacher too! Next, Mrs. Miller worked with us on our nonfiction reading strategies as she used the Smartboard to project the book, World Holidays. We used the Smartboard to highlight the many nonfiction features in the book and to help us read and summarize the facts about each holiday. (Ask me some new things I learned today!) During math we continued with place value concepts and used a Smartboard spinner as practice. We found out that when we add 10 to a number the only digit that changes is the digit in the tens and when we add 100 to a number the only digit that changes is the digit in the hundreds. Our homeowork tonight is to study for our Spelling test tomorrow. Our Special tomorrow is Art.