Ask me about tuesday, december 8, 2020

Today we continued to work on visualizing and finding words with similar meanings.  We listened to the poem Little Lizzie.  We visualized what was happening in the poem.  Each stanza had words with similar meanings.  We talked and acted out these words.  We also talked about how the character felt about going to bed.  We talked in small groups in break-out rooms about not wanting to go to bed.  We reviewed how to have a discussion and involve all participants in the breakout rooms, as well as keeping the discussion going.  We know we should make sure everyone gets a chance to talk, that we can encourage others to talk by asking questions, and to ask questions to find out more and to keep the discussion going.  
We also listened to one of my favorite books.  We read The Napping House, by Audrey Wood, and illustrated by Don Wood.  This book was shared with me when I was in college in a "kiddie Lit" class, which was my all-time favorite class.  This book started my collection of children's books I would use in my classroom, and was the beginning of my love of children's literature.  This book has many different words that have shades of meaning to the word sleep.  Ask me to tell you some of the words I heard for sleep in The Napping House.  I assigned this book on Epic, if you would like to read it with your child.
We watched a video about the importance of sleep.  We learned about how long children should sleep, why it is important, how it recharges us like a battery, how it helps our brain and how body, and the importance of a sleep routine.  This was a really good video, but the presenter spoke at such a rapid pace, it was hard to keep up.  We used a strategy readers use, so we stopped along the way to summarize and check for understanding.  Ask me to tell you what I learned about the sleep.

It's going to be a cold night!  Stay warm!
​Miss Wolfe