'The Sweetest Fig'

Today we had Music. We were playing our recorders, and we were playing little songs - they were called Nothing But B, Nothing But A, and Nothing But G. - Gal

Today we got our 30th sticker. Since we got our 30 stickers, we get a movie and hot chocolate. All of the classes have to get 30 stickers so the whole school can watch. If we follow outside recess expectations, we can get a sticker. - Dasia

We had a busy day... again (although, I suppose it's somewhat redundant to write that - EVERY day in an Early Years classroom is busy!). The students filmed their science experiments, they worked on Number of the Day, they had another session of Daily 5, and we studied another one of Chris Van Allsburg's awesome books in Writers' Workshop: The Sweetest Fig. Once again, after reading the book and discussing it, the students wrote a response to the book, and for the second time, we discussed and used the graphic organizer for them to organize their thoughts, and write their response. Even more students were initially successful today at constructing a good paragraph answer, after I once again modelled how to do so (more 'we do', that I wrote about yesterday). I think doing read-alouds with the class is one of the best parts of my job, so I've put a picture of them (sitting on our awesome Winnipeg Jets carpet!) listening to me read The Sweetest Fig on today's post (thanks to Ms. S. for taking the picture)...