On Tuesday and Wednesday we built on this strategy and learned "Feelings Change." We discussed how characters feelings don't stay the same. Good things and bad things happen to our characters and their feelings change. Readers pay attention to this and notice when their character's feelings change. We modeled this with two of Kevin Henkes' books: Lilly's Big Day and Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. We created a chart that listed the action/word/thoughts and the feeling that corresponded. Students again applied this strategy in their independent reading. (We needed two post-its notes for this of course!) Students also have a spiral notebook that they are allowed to "stop and jot" while reading to record how feelings change for the characters in their books. We noticed that students often want to only tell why the character feels a certain way. Although this is very important, they also need to be able to say what the character did, said, or thought that shows they felt a particular way.
We also worked on sequencing the events in a story. We worked on comparing and contrasting using venn diagrams. For any story that has a theme/message/moral, we discuss this as well. This is something that you can do with books at home too. In math we worked on writing and counting tally marks. We also worked on using graphs to help us solve problems. In social studies, we continued learning about maps. Students should know that maps have a map key/legend with symbols, a compass rose, and a scale. They had so much fun exploring maps on Google.