The past couple of weeks we have been working with a mini-unit within our snowman poster called Book Club Plus. Within this we mainly looked at one book called "A Little Bit of Winter". I really enjoyed doing this because we got to read through this book several times looking at different attributes that all good readers have. We talked about making predictions and checking up on those throughout the story to see how what we know and can relate will help us guess what the story is about. We also got to talk about sequencing and retelling. Also we got to work a lot with our vocabulary for this particular Text Talk book. One of our words was COMPANIONS. We had a great discussion on how companions are our friends and they are people we enjoying doing this with in and out of the classroom. This went along very nicely with Valentine's Day where we talked about what it means to be a good friend and how we use our manners when we open up our Valentines.
Back Row: Skyler, Angel, Justin, Tatiana, Faith, AJ, Joseph, Kyli, Ojem
Middle Row: Evelyn, Tiffany, Hailey, Patrick, Cindy, Brianna, Anahi
Front Row: Alexis, Allen, Pablo
The kids really enjoyed spending the afternoon with their classroom companions! But we must move on... To talk more about companions each student picked two companions in the class. We then took their picture with their companions...which was the easy part! We are currently writing about our two companion friends and why they are our friends using sentences and sounds we hear when we write! We are trying to get ready for first grade so when your student asks you to spell a word encourage them to use their letters and their sounds!!! As for the pictures...you will have to wait until you come visit us or at conferences when our writings will be hung up in the hall for our friends to see!
Until next time....
Ms. Mills
