Plants, Literacy Centers, Reading and Writing Workshop

Our class has been learning about plants this week in Science. We are observing our lima bean seeds each morning and recording what we notice in our lima bean journals. Today we labeled the parts of a plant in our science notebooks and then made a craft activity to go along with it.

 

Here are a few pictures of some literacy center work!

 

Using story cubes to identify character, problem and setting and then write a story to go along with those elements!

 

 



Reading and listening to stories at our own personal reading level and answering corresponding comprehension questions on the computers. The kids love this!

Working on some activities such as building long e words, sorting words, counting syllables in words, and putting words in ABC order at the Word Work center.

 

 

Reading our leveled readers and interest books from our book bags at the Read to Self center!

 

Here are some pictures of what we are working on in Reader's Workshop including an anchor chart we used to refer to for discussion when comparing and contrasting books in our book clubs! We have also been adding to ongoing "Vocabulary Word Banks" for important words related to our topics. The students identify words that they think are important to know when learning about their topic, write the word, and illustrate. Then we add it to the word bank. :)

 

 

 

 

Lastly, here are some pictures of students working hard at writing persuasive letters as well as sharing one of their favorites. They are doing such a great job! I am so impressed at how so many of them have moved beyond persuading people for things like toys and moving towards things that can help others!