After we watched the news to see what the groundhog predicted, we wrote about it and made these so, so cute groundhogs from my sweet friend Heidi.
Tuesday, we started reading some of my favorite Valentines stories - there are so many good ones!! I love reading the ones about friends, since this about the time of year when we *sometimes* forget what being a good friend means.
First, we read The Biggest Valentine Ever {my kids love this series of books!}. It led us into a conversation about friendship. We made a little tree map about friends, then made the valentine mouse that Clayton and Desmond made in the book. The kids thought it was so cool that they could replicate the mouse from the story!
Another of my favorite stories is Silly Tilly's Valentine. It's perfect for finding text evidence! My kids did a great job of finding evidence as to why Tilly was silly.
After reading the story, I wanted my kids to practice "argument" writing. I wrote all my students' names on slips of paper and each child drew a friend to write about. They had to give evidence that showed why their person was a good friend. Y'all - it was so sweet!!
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"She is nice to me because she shares" |
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"He never left my side. You know why - because he is my friend." |
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{He shares with his snack and he plays with me} |
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{My Ms. Plant - melt my heart!} |
This week, we'll continue our Valentine fun and work on our Valentine bags. We'll make these...so cute and so easy!
SO much fun! LOVE Froggy and Frogilina!
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Those groundhogs are adorable! I just pinned for next year - looks great! Thank you, Jen
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these photos on instagram.Keep posting more.
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