Mentor Sentences

Hi this is A.K. and Z.H.!  We are teaching about mentor sentences. Mrs Anklam picks a sentence from a book usually from read aloud and writes it on the board for us to write in our notebooks.  We look for verbs, adjectives, nouns, subject, predicate, punctuation, capital letters, and Fundations stuff.  It helps us write better. 

Thank you bye!

Writing Informational Books

 While it has been a long process to write an informational book, we have learned SO much!  Here's what we did....

• We made a list of topics we knew a lot about but wanted to know more.  Then we chose just one.  Here were the different topics chosen....

• We went to the library to find books that would help us research our topic.
• We used iPads to find information that wasn't in our books.

Stay tuned for our finished books!

Prefix Fun

While we have done a lot of practice with suffixes, prefixes are something new.  We have learned they are very similar, except prefixes come before a word and suffixes come after.  Many of the familiar words we know are able to get a prefix added and become a brand new word.  The main prefixes we worked with were: 

dis, non, pre, mis, un, re

One final and fun project was a prefix flipbook. Everyone was assigned a different prefix to use in their book.

Happy Valentine's Day!

The party on Friday was a great time and we even got our exercise in!  Here's the relay race we did...

 

Thank you mom helpers for making our party a fantastic one!

Happy New Year!

We are going to get started on the right foot in 2015!  Resolutions were made and actions will be taken in room 119!  We all chose something that will better ourselves for 2015.  We made