Pioneer Day

Pioneer Day is a "learning extravaganza". It started with our previous StoryTown curriculum and reading a story from one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. It actually fits easily into our Benchmark Literacy learning, because we are studying the genre historical fiction.

 

 For Ms. Leom's students, we are reading Little House on the Prairie picture books. Students are working on several activities using these books:
* reading these books to learn more about the historical fiction genre
* reading these books to develop our oral reading fluency
* practicing our using evidence from the book and writing inferences
* developing our vocabulary identifying emotion words
* developing our vocabulary using context clues to define a word

Other learning activities related to Pioneer Day include:
* writing on "slates" (black construction paper with white colored pencils or crayons) our spelling assignment

* making butter from cream and eating it on fresh baked buns

After we made the butter, it only made sense that we should EAT our butter. The kitchen baked fresh buns for us, and we enjoyed our hard work!

And Ms. Leom's class will be meeting and reading their Little House books to their Kindergarten Reading Buddies after lunch today!

(We did ALL the lessons that were planned for the day. We just added some flavor and called it an extravaganza, and we enjoyed our magical day of learning!)