Compare and Contrast

In our fairy tale unit we read Cinderella, and parodies of Cinderella, including Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, and Bubba the Cowboy Prince. Using a Venn Diagram we compared and contrasted each of these books. 

Today we are watching the movie Wizard of Oz. and comparing it to the book! It is VERY different. I can't wait to see what our Venn Diagrams look like!

Take a look at what we have done with our book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!

After learning about adjectives we made character charts with describing words!

When we worked on sequencing, we put the characters in the order that we met them!

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road. 

Our yellow brick road helps us line up in a straight line!

What awareness!?!

For all those folks out their wondering what is phonemic awareness and why does my kid need it.....

Phonemic awareness is being able to break words into sounds and use sounds to make words, but only the sound part of it, not the written word... that's phonics

When you hear the word CAT, you hear /c/ /a/ and /t/.... That is phonemic awareness! you are aware of each phoneme (sound)

Check out this ladder... you start at the bottom. The top the ladder continues into phonics.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

We are off to a great start with our friends, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. The kids have had a great time learning all about these characters and the settings through out the story! We have made character charts, setting charts, and plot charts. Our first extended text has even helped us learn some grammar skills such as: nouns, verbs, adjectives, similes, and synonyms! We have even begun writing our predictions about the ending of the story! We sure hope all these guys get their wishes from the great and terrible Oz!