Story Elements of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

One of our favorite things to do, is to graffiti write a story! Last week, we did this was Eric Carle's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  We broke into expert groups and focused on the following story elements: setting, characters, beginning, middle, and end.

After creating, we shared with the rest of the class!

What can we learn from the book, Snow?

We have loved reading the book, Snow this week. We have worked to identify and learn many things from this one book.

Today, we broke into groups and worked to identify the setting, characters, and facts from the book. 

We had one setting group:

We had one group who identified the characters:

And two groups who identified facts from our text:

Here are our final products:

ELA Stations

Just a few pictures from our ELA stations this past week:

Sight Word Hunt!

This week, we have had lots of fun reviewing all sight words!

Today, we searched through magazines to find sight words. The students loved this! This would be a fun and easy way to practice sight words at home.

Building Our Stamina!

Over the past few weeks, we have been working hard to build our stamina for reading independently. 

Today we reached the first goal that we had set for ourselves: 15 minutes!!!

They were SO proud of themselves! There was a round of applause and high fives going on everywhere in room 201! I am so proud of my sweet students for all working so hard!

Stations stations stations!

I absolutely LOVE watching the students as they are working independently in stations. This week I have started introducing stations by using 5 "Tubs." These are activities that I feel the students can work independently and be successful with.  The purpose of our tubs is to begin giving the students the opportunities to work in small groups independently.

Our 5 Tubs:

1. Legos

2. Math Manipulatives

3. Construction paper and markers

4. Puzzles

5. Play-doh