Busy First Week!

I find it hard to believe that the first week of school is already over!


Our first week was spent getting to know each other through fun games and activities such as "two truths and a lie".  We also created a time capsule to see how much our hands and feet grow from the first day of school to the last day of school.  Some students even went home and created their own time capsules!


We began our reading instruction with a brief study on poetry.  We learned vocabulary words such as rhyme, pattern, rhythm, and stanzas.  We read several different poems together.  The class favorite was the poem Spaghetti! Spaghetti!  We liked this poem because it rhymed and even made a few students hungry!

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!


Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
You’re wonderful stuff,
I love you spaghetti,
I can’t get enough,
You’re covered with sauce
And you’re sprinkled with cheese,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Oh, give me some please.
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Piled high in a mound,
You wiggle, you wriggle,
You squiggle around.
There’s slurpy spaghetti
All over my plate.
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
I think you are great.

-Jack Prelutsky

Here are a few pictures of students hard at work during reading instruction. 

Each student received their own Scribble Journal.  A Scribble Journal has a scribble on a page, the student completes the picture based on the scribble, and then created a story based off their picture.  

We worked on our Scribble Journals one day this week and we really liked them!  It was fun to see such creative minds at work.  Here are a few pictures of students and their very first Scribble Journal entries.