A Buggy Day!

It was a funny day, because Mrs. Myers could hardly talk. Her voice sounded very hoarse. It was good Miss Sementelli could read some of our stories. Our word of the day today was "also". It was a rule breaker, because "al" is usually "all" or "ol" and the "o" said his name in "so" without another vowel helping him. The word also is an adverb. In the morning, Grace, Maddy, Macy G, and Anna gave the butterfly blog today. Check it out on the butterfly blog website. After recess, we had reading workshop and guided reading. Miss Sementelli read with some of us. Mrs. Myers met with the Robot group and a new group about Seals. We like learning about nonfiction. At game time, we met with a parter and practiced spelling word wall words. Then, it was time for lunch. Mrs. Myers and Miss Sementeli had lunch with the Fabulous Five Handwriters today. They Fab Five are Grace, Macy B, Evan, and Dawson this week. After lunch, we learned about four kinds of questions that Mrs. Myers can ask us after we read. By knowing the kind of question our teacher asks, it helps us find the answer. We can also ask these questions to ourselves as we read. The easiest kind of question is a "right there" questions. This is a question that you can find the answer "right there" in the story. A question that also uses the story, but is a little harder is called a "think and search" question. A think and search question is one that needs to to look through lots of pages in the book, like comparing and retelling. The hardest kind of question is called "author and me" question. This is a question where you need to think about what the author says and use ideas in your own brain to answer it. The last kind of question is easy. It's called "on my own". This is a question about our favorite part or what we don't like. We will use these questions to help us remember the stories we read. After we learned about each question, we heard the story, Magic School Bus Spins a Web. Then, we heard questions from the story and had to sort them into the question types. Last, we answered a question from each category! Next, it was center time. We visited our third center for the week. Mrs. Myers introduced the art center. We are making stained glass butterflies for our classroom windows. At math time, we had a lesson on probability. Probability is the chance that sometime will happen. Mrs. Myers handed out bags of caterpillar cards to each table. We had to look in our bag and predict the chance of pulling the yellow or green colored caterpillar. We used the vocabulary always, never, likely, unlikely, and sometimes. Then, we closed the bag and pulled the cards. We recorded the data on our caterpillar sheet. At the end, we discussed if our prediction came true, even though we all predicted correctly. That's probability! At the end of the afternoon, we started our writing project - A Bug Adventure from the bug's point of view. We used our writing plan to brainstorm our ideas and character traits. We can't wait to shrink and "become" our bug tomorrow! After last recess, we watched a Magic School Bus Bug Adventure movie. It gave us some new facts about ants and gave us some ideas for our stories tomorrow. Hopefully Mrs. Myers will be able to talk tomorrow!