This week we have a fiction story, Stellaluna, about a bat who starts to live with a bird family and starts acting like a bird until it finds others of its kind. We will also read non-fiction books about bats as well so we can see what is fact and fiction. We will continue working on irregular plural nouns. We will also talk about irregular verbs.
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Crankenstein by Samantha Berger is a funny story that is basically how when things don't go kids' ways then they turn into Crankensteins. He's a Crankenstein getting up in the morning, when the syrup is all gone for his pancakes, heading to school, sun melts his popsicle, too cold on Halloween... He's upset about a broken toy when he notices a girl Crankenstein for the same reason. They see each other and start to laugh which turns them back into themselves and then they go off to play. We made a lot of connections to ourselves with the character in the book. We also worked on sequencing with beginning, middle, end. We also talked about Shades of Meaning and how different words that mean almost the same thing (synonyms) can get amped up: sickened, disgusted, nauseated. We talked about using a Thesaurus to help amp up words in their writing. We also started learning about irregular plural nouns (mouse - mice, child - children, sheep - sheep)
We read a non-fiction story on spiders. We learned many facts about spiders: differences between them and insects, spiderlings (baby spiders), different webs, and different types of spiders. The main thing we learned is that most spiders are not harmful. In fact most spiders are helpful as they make it so that insects don't take over the world. They also eat insects that are bad for us and plants, and they are part of the food chain themselves. We also continued working on capitals, punctuation, and adjectives. We also were introduced to non-fiction text features and practiced finding them in non-fiction texts. We also continued practicing Summarizing using Somebody Wanted But So Then
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