Mitten

We have been reading the Mitten this past week.  Again with this book we made predictions about the story  using the title and the cover picture.  We also listed the animals we would most likely encounter in the story.  To do so we used our letter/sound knowledge and sounded out the first  letter of the animal's name. 

This week we will retell the story using stuffed animals.  Students will then get a chance to colour their own animals and retell the story using a "mitten".  This will be a centre activity and will take approximately a week for all  students to complete.  They will be encouraged to use their "props" to retell the story at home to you.  Thanks for listening to them. 

Read Aloud, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

One of our focused read alouds this week was for the book The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

Our pre-reading activity included looking at a group of objects  and the book cover and making predictions (we used the word prediction as a fancy word for guess) about the plot for our story.

Some predictions by the JK students were, "the pumpkin will get dressed up", "the old lady is getting dressed for Halloween"

Subsequent readings of the story invited the students to join in which repetitive parts of the story

"Two shoes go CLOMP, CLOMP,

One pair of pants go WIGGLE, WIGGLE,

One shirt go, SHAKE, SHAKE,

Two gloves go CLAP, CLAP,

One hat go NOD, NOD,

And one scary pumpkin head go BOO, BOO!"

Scholastic Book Orders

With this blog entry we begin the monthly Scholastics book orders. Each month a Scholastic Book Order will be sent home with your child. Each order helps earn free books and teaching materials for our classroom; however there is never any obligation to order.  If you do decide to place an order, please ensure that your child’s name is placed on the order sheet and the Payment is made by cheque only (cheques are to be made out to Scholastic Canada Inc). 

October 11