Shapely Pets!

For short e week we studied and read about pets. Since we were also studying 2 D shapes in math, we combined the two and created Shape Pets! The students then used the names of the shapes in our observational comment writing lessons for the week (Write from the Beginning) to construct descriptive sentences about their shape pet. I also placed extra shapes, paper and shape books in the shapes work station for kids to create and write about more shapely pets!

Short O Hot Dog Day!

Celebrate short o by having a hot dog day! After learning about the short o sound all week through poems, books, word sorts and word play, we made headbands and wrote short o words all over them. As the kids ate hot dogs on Friday, they read the words on each others' headbands and had a lot of tasty fun! The students wore red (hot dogs or ketchup), yellow (mustard), brown (buns) or I had one wear green (relish!) It was so fun and a great way to reinforce the short o sound! :)