Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

This upcoming week is a celebration of reading and Dr. Seuss.  Right to Read Week always occurs the week of Dr. Seuss' birthday.  Sharpsburg Primary thought we would dress up for the occasion. 

The only problem with this is that it says "February 29," which does not exist this year.  My apologies.  Friday is March 1st. 

Each room is going to be decorated for the Dr. Seuss week.  The theme will be based around one book.  First grade classes will be decorated as "The Lorax," "The Sleep Book," and "Please Try to Remember the First of Octember."

We are very excited and look forward to sharing lots of pictures with you!

Mrs. Hutchison

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Our last week in January

Our firsties enjoyed 4 different Pigeon books this week.  Here they are:

We worked with the students on looking at all different text features that help the author/illustrator tell the story more effectively.  Here are some of the examples that we looked at:

underlined text for emphasis

 

 

the use of all capital letters for emphasis

We also discussed other ways that authors give us information through diagrams, descriptive illustrations, maps, and many other ways.  Here are some examples that we showed:

The use of many panels on a page.  The expressions of the pigeon.

We learned how to read a life cycle diagram.

Check out some other activities we did with the Pigeon this week.

We will be continuing our study of the author/illustrator Mo Willems in the upcoming week.

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Hutchison

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