Grinch Day!!

Today was obviously Grinch day! For morning work they got to create Grinch masks that we taped to popsicle sticks! They loved it and were very creative in saying that whenever I read the word Grinch in the book they would hold their masks up over their faces! I loved the idea!

The next project we did was to come up with Grinchy Adjectives- in other words words that described what the grinch is like!

We also listed adjectives that described the Grinch's heart.  My students did a great job at listing adjectives about his heart at the beginning and at the end of the movie knowing his heart grew throughout the book and movie! What smart students I have.

Next, we did a writing prompt inside the Grinch's mouth that said, "I would make a Grinch grin by..." and they had to fill in the blanks.  They did an amazing job at the things they would do to make him smile. Another activity we did was creating similes to describe the Grinch's heart or the Grinch altogether.  The example I gave them was that the Grinch's heart was as small as a mouse, and they came up with more creative ones than I did!! I love how well they did at creating their Grinch's faces! I can't wait to do this day again next year and even do it better!

Jim the Gingerbread Man Has a close encounter!

Last night Jim went to Mrs. Fuller's house to visit and check out her Christmas decorations. While he was looking at her beautiful Christmas tree, he met her boxer Gable. Gable thought Jim was a toy so he was constantly sniffing him out in the Fuller household.  There was one time where Mrs. Fuller turned her back for a split second and Gable ran off with Jim, the Gingerbread Man. Mrs. Fuller quickly hunted down her puppy and rescued Jim from the mouth of the boxer.  Gable thought he had found a new friend to play with for the night, little did Gable know that Gingerbread men don't play with dogs!

Reader's Workshop

This week we have been integrating the gingerbread man into our curriculum.  Our lesson today involved the gingerbread baby into our reader's workshop.  We are getting ready for Assessment 6 and mastering the standard of writing brief narratives.  This reader's workshop was all online which allowed it to be more interactive for my students.By creating a gingerbread person and taking them on an adventure.  When they write their story about the adventure it will force them to tell me a narrative based upon experiences that happened in a specific order and that describe the setting, characters, objects, and events in detail which is Standard 2.5.1.  I recorded myself reading Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett and posted it to this blog.  Their job was to create a gingerbread friend, name it, and take it with them to somewhere they went throughout the day.  They needed to take a picture of it there and post the picture along with their adventure story online to my blog! This sounded like a lot of fun to me.. so I got the adventure started.