Snowmen at Night

   We have had a wonderful first week back after the holiday break.  We have been having fun in Writing this week learning new words to improve our Word Choice in our writing pieces.   One of the activities that we do in my room is collect words.  We are collecting antonyms right now.  Occasionally, I will choose one of the pairs of antonyms to do some extended work with.  This is a strategy I learned at LETRS training.  We used the words fat and skinny and thought of every word in between to describe fat and skinny.  We also thought of some words to describe "really fat" and "really skinny".   Then we ranked the words in order of degree of fat and skinny.    To follow up on some of our word study we wrote about snowmen.  We had obese snowmen, plump snowman, an emaciated snowman, and many other very descriptive snowmen.  It was fun to read their writing.   This activity was also an extension of the book Snowmen at Night.  They told about what their snowman does at night while they are sleeping.

   Enjoy our display!