Hellllllllooooooo Friday!

I absolutely adore my kiddos this year but boy have I been waiting on today! I was OUT the door and on my way to pick up my own little munchkin from daycare as the bell rang today. My little one hasn't been sleeping much at night so I have been daydreaming all day about coming home to curl up and nap with him. Now he is snoozing and my mind is racing thinking about all the things we did this week and all the things planned for next week. So much for a nap!

This week we finished up our chapter book study and we are moving on into NON FICTION books. I raided my bookshelves, the school library, and the public library for an assortment of non-fiction books, magazines, newspapers etc. so that they students can learn all about non fiction text features.

We started our non-fiction anchor chart. I would show them a feature, then we talked about it, and then I gave them time to find the text feature in their set of non-fiction books. We didn't finish it this week BUT here's what we have done so far...

                                                    Click here to download the text feature cards.

I don't know about you all, but my students have been going CRAZY for non fiction. They are learning so much and want to share with you every exciting fact they find! I remember seeing this idea on Pinterest awhile back and knew that it would be perfect. Whenever a student finds an interesting fact that they just have to share they write it down and turn it into the new Did You Know section of our room. Each day I pick one awesome fact and the student who submits it gets to write it on our Did You Know board so it can be shared with the whole class. On their card they need to write where they found the information in case anyone else wants to go read more about it!

                                                   You can sort of see the bag where I keep the cards to the right.

Well it's time to go RELAX....Hope you all get to do the same!