similes, please!

Today, we talked about similes. The girls grasped the concept pretty quickly. We will continue to talk about similes and review them as we go along this year. First, we made an anchor chart and I came up with some examples. I had the girls tell me the 2 things I was comparing in each example. Then, I had them write a simile for a pumpkin. I found this writing paper at Oceans of First Grade Fun!

how to bake an apple pie

Yesterday, we read The Biggest Apple Ever. It's a cute book about Clayton and Desmond who can't find the biggest apple to win the school contest, but decide to make the biggest apple pie ever to share with their class. For writing, I had the girls write and draw 'how to bake an apple pie'. I made a graphic organizer and divided the page into fourths. I labeled each section with transition words like - first, next, then and last.

apple time!

Today we are starting our apple theme. I know it's a little late for apples, but I was waiting on some new apple books to come in from Scholastic. We started the day by describing an apple with adjectives. Then I peeled the apple and we used our 5 senses to also describe an apple.

Ethan got in on the action and I recorded his answers on his page for him!

The girls then used the graphic organizer to write about apples in their writing journals.

Be sure to check back, I have lots of other apple activities planned for this week!

finger spacing

Ever notice that when kids write, they like to write their words back-to-back with no spaces between each word? Well, I teach my girls to finger space with 2 of their fingers while they are writing. That way I can easily read their writing.