We are learning so "Munsch"!

So many of us consider Robert Munsch a Canadian icon (although he wasn't born in Canada....true fact) and the students just love that they are working everyday with a new classic!  

The activities are challenging the students to think at a 'higher level' (remember Bloom's Taxonomy?), and although the work is more difficult, I am using Amy Lemon's wonderful unit which combines this more difficult work with cute creative 'crafts' to take the sting away.

For Aaron's Hair, the students identified the problem and solution for the story.

In the activity for Smelly Socks,  the students made a text to self connection (how did they relate to the characters or events of the story?)

For Alligator Baby, the students practised writing the main idea.

Here's one that is quite good.

If your kiddo is still writing like this, after daily reminders from the teacher, they are still at a beginning stage, and will be yellow on their final report, because they are not making progress and being able to work independently.  You will notice this as they work on their writing on the weekends.

My favourite might be from the book entitled PIGS! The students wrote a list of five things that people might do that might make others call them a piglet.  They were so funny!

Today, instead of me reading a Robert Munsch story to the students, we divided into three groups of seven, and used a Reader's Theatre version of Robert Munsch's story Andrew's Loose Tooth.

My favourite part was listening in from the side lines and hearing the students really put expression and fluency to work!  My second favourite part was when one of the boys said "I can make an equation for that" and told us all that 3 divided by 3 equals 7.  We had a little talk about how in dividing the largest number had to start the equation and another smart kiddo was able to change it to 21 divided by 3 equals 7.  Before I knew it, they were giving me the equation of 7+7+7=21 and 3X7=21!   It was enough to make me want to do a happy dance!

The day got a bit out of control, as they mimicked Andrew showing his loose tooth!

At least they understood how the picture was created!

Today, the students got a chance to try out some measuring practise on items in our classroom.  They are preparing for a big project that we will do next week on measuring.  They will be using their hands (traced and cut out of paper),

centimeters on a ruler, and

unifix cubes.  They were so focused on how measuring distance works.