Terrific Tuesday

It was another chilly morning. Luckily we came in quickly and were able to start our morning tubs. We are working on identifying beginning and end sounds in words, matching numerals to a counted number and printing pet words. Some of us are also reading with Mrs. Patten. We are working on predicting words in text based on the first letter and the picture.

After morning tubs, we continued on with our pet work. We discussed good and poor choices for pets in our classroom. We sorted some animals on the Smartboard and talked about things such as the amount of space animals need and how easy they are to take care of. Some of our ideas included:

Good Pets
- cats because they give you love by purring
- dogs because they play with you
- frogs because they are small and easy to care for
- birds and fish because they can live in a small tank or cage

Bad Pets
- bears because they eat too much and are too big
- a horse because they need too much space
- wolves and foxes because they need a den

After our class discussion, we each worked on picking our own good and poor choices. We drew pictures of these and then worked on writing out our ideas. Some of us are practicing beginning and end sounds while others are working toward writing words in sentences and finding popcorn (sight) words. We did a great job.

Thanks for Kaeson for sharing about a pet snake today.  Tomorrow's top banana is Owin.

Notices:
Please read the following notice about Valentine's Day.

Kind regards, 

Mrs. Patten