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A Class Story

teacher102 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:49:53 +0000

Our class has been reading Folk Tales. One of our first ones was Little Red Hen. We learned about storyboard and made one together. We used it a few times to retell Little Red Hen. We also made our own picture story maps. Check out our work and our voicethread. We made our own version of Little Red Hen.

If you like our voicethread please leave us a comment.

Where the Wild Things Are

teacher102 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:34:45 +0000

We have been reading Maurice Sendak’s classic story “Where the Wild Things Are” in class. We have enough books so that each student can have a copy in front to them. On Wednesday afternoons our 4th grade Reading Buddies come to our class. Last week we read the story together and then wrote down important words from the story. I collected all these words and typed them on a word document. Then I copied and pasted these words on a wordle .
The picture above shows what we created. Try making your own wordle. Laura says she has tried making one at home.
Come back to our blog later to see our “Wild Things”. We each made a wild thing. We are all excited to go see the movie. It starts today. I think I will have to wait until next weekend to see it. I can’t wait.

Reader’s Theater – Caps For Sale

teacher102 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:16:25 +0000

We’ve been practicing our reading fluency by doing a Reader’s Theater. This is our first try at this. It was a challenge for us to learn how to follow along so we would know when we had to speak. We worked on using expression in our voices, too. Congratulations to everyone. You all did a great job.

Reader’s Theater – Caps For Sale from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.

Designing Book Covers

teacher102 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:45:15 +0000

Grade One has been busy designing book covers for some unfamiliar stories. I read aloud Abuella by Arthur Dorros the other day. The pictures are by Elissa Kleven. I had the cover of the book blocked with a piece of construction paper so that the children could design their own book cover. This is a story about a little girl named Rosalba who is always “going places” with her grandmother who she calls Abuella. This is Spanish for Grandmother. It is a multicultural story with Spanish words and phrases weaved into the English text. During one of their bird feeding outings to the park Rosalba wonders aloud “What if I could fly”? Thus begins an excursion in the child’s imagagination as they fly high above the busses and tall buildings in Manhattan in New York City. Each stop reveals memories from Abuella’s ethnic past. The illustrations are just beautiful. If you are looking for multicultural stories check out Abuella.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Maybe next year in grade two we could reread this story and then make up our own version using Montreal landmarks and French words mixed in with English words. What do you think first graders???

Our Favorite Stories

teacher102 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:37:58 +0000

Grade One loves to read and have stories read aloud to them by their teacher. Here are some of our favorite stories. Have you read any of them?

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Spelling Bee

teacher102 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:02:14 +0000

Check out this Spelling Bee website. You can practice your spelling with exercises that provide audio support with simple passages. You need to type in the correct spelling of the words that go into the blanks. The nice thing is that you can choose your grade level. My students can choose grade one. First, type in your first name or initials. I found this on Larry Ferlazzo’s Blog.

http://www.learner.org/interactives/spelling/spelling.html?s=g1

A Book Review

teacher102 — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:42:37 +0000

Grade One wrote a Book Review together of this new book by Nick Bland.

The Very Cranky Bear

by Nick Bland

A zebra, a lion, a moose and a sheep want to play in the den of a bear. The bear woke up and roared at them to get out. The bear was very cranky. It made us think about how cranky we get when we are tired. We liked it when the animals dressed up the bear. The bear was even more cranky because he needed to sleep. Read the story to find out what the sheep does. She is very thoughtful but it is funny what she does. Kids who like animals and funny books will like this story.

by Mrs. Lynch’s Grade One

Our First Book Review on Shelfari

teacher102 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:21:41 +0000

Catherine was the first student in our class to choose her favorite book to put on our Shelfari Book shelf. To read her review go to our Shelfari book shelf on the left sidebar and then click on the book The Diary of a Worm. Then click on “my copy”. Catherine gave it 5 stars. What do you think of this book?

Roy the Zebra

teacher102 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:09:39 +0000

Dear Boys and Girls,

I found another website called “Roy the Zebra” that I think you might enjoy. it is a reading website with stories about a zebra named Roy. You can read them by yourself or with your Mom or Dad. Click here to go to the website. You can watch/listen to me read Part One of Roy the Singing Zebra by clicking here.

This is another screencast I made. There are 9 other stories about Roy that you can read. What do you think? What do you notice about the stories?

Between the Lions Website

teacher102 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:58:53 +0000

Hello First Graders,

My foot is doing better. I am taking good care of myself. I want to share a cool reading website I found with you. I think you will like it. Watch my video and you will see what you can do. This is my first try at doing a screencast. A screencast is just a video of my computer screen. Click on the link below (2009-04-06) to watch my screencast. To go to the actual pbs kids website click Between the Lions website here. I also have a link to it on the right sidebar under “Links”.

2009-04-06_0940

I am learning new things while I am at home. What did you think of my screencast? What do you think of this website?