Mrs. Giboney's Class Blog: Are you tuning in?

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Are you tuning in?

Yesterday as part of our Fire Prevention Week kick off we read the book The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck by Laura Murray. We read the book again today, but before we did we talked about something that will make us better readers and ultimately better writers.

We learned how to TUNE IN to Interesting Words. This means

listening for new words that we don't know
finding words that are fun to say
watching for new or more interesting ways to say something for example, saying scurried instead of went
and most importantly, having FUN with words

When we learn new words and what they mean, we say that we are expanding our vocabulary. When we have BIG vocabularies we become better readers and writers.

Here are some interesting words that we found during our second reading of The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck.

Photo taken by Mrs. Giboney

What is your favorite word?

Do you have a new word you'd like to share with us?

Did you learn a new word from our chart?

*When you share a word, tell us what it means and try using them in a sentence.

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