Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Apple Fact and Opinion

Today we worked on more story elements.Our concentration today was fact and opinion. We talked about apple facts and opinions. Using pinterest I found this great teacher's blog with a ton of free apple teaching ideas. Here is a link to her site. http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/search/label/Apples





Next, I decided to kick it up a notch for David. I modeled facts and responses (we did this in 9th grade in my public school way back when) for him and then asked him to write a few on his own. We used the facts that he could remember from the story of Johnny Appleseed (Stephen Kellog's version). Here are pictures from today's lesson.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Can you Guess Who We've been studying about?

I decided to give the boys a break from our traditional reading curriculum. So this week we are doing a book study on Johnny Appleseed! I love this story. More pictures to come!