On October 31st, we had a fun Fall celebration in our classroom! Thank you to parents for planning, organizing, and volunteering to make our first classroom celebration a success! Students were able to rotate through games like pin the bowtie on the skeleton and bean bag toss. They did two crafts in which they created a skeleton out of Q-tips and made their own goodie bag pumpkins. The party ended with a couple of stories and their special snacks. Fun was had by all!
During the first trimester, our primary writing focus has been on personal narratives. We have focused on organizing our writing with a beginning, middle, and end. We worked on making sure that our beginning include a who, what, where, and when. The ending needed to provide a feeling that connected back to the topic. Recently, we have been working on stretching out the middle of our stories to add in more details to help describe and tell our story. We used our common experience of the library field trip to add to our basic story to help stretch out our middle. Above, you can see what we added to our story to make it better. What we added/fixed is squiggle-lined (is that a word???) in blue or written in blue. We used this piece of writing as our example of a clear and complete narrative. We will continue to work on narratives throughout the year through Weekend News, work on writing prompts, and homework.
