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Thunder Cake

This week we read the story Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco.  We noticed all the clues that author and illustrator left us to show that this story happened a long time ago.  We also listened or onomatopoeia's.  Every time Mrs. Wanke read one, we yelled ONOMATOPOEIA!  On Wednesday, we MADE Thunder Cake.

The secrete ingredient in Thunder Cake is tomatoes…yes I said tomatoes.  Tomatoes make the cake very moist.  You can't taste them, even though some first graders, who shall remain nameless, said they could taste them. If you are curious about Thunder Cake, check out the recipe below.  

Here we are enjoying our delicious...chocolate...not tomato taste here Thunder Cake!

Attributes

This week we have been talking about different attributes of shapes.  Such as sides, angles, open and closed shapes.  We listened to the story Frog and Toad, Lost Button.  In this story Toad lost his button. Frog and Toad walked around finding buttons.  Toad would describe his button using different attributes such as, big, 2 holes, white, thick, and smooth.  

After the story, we played a game called Guess My Button.  We projected several buttons onto the SMART board. One person would describe their button with different attributes and we had to guess.  

Then, we got into small groups.  Each group got a pile of buttons. Together we decided which attributes to sort the buttons.  We sorted by size, color, texture, and number of holes.

The Elusive Lirpaloof Bird 2016

Today, we read the following article about the Lirpaloof bird.

We studied this fascinating creature.  We went back into the text to learn about it's beautiful color so that we could spot this bird.  We went back and learned that bird ate seeds, small insects and carrots. In fact it is the carrots that gives the bird it's orange color.  In our extensive reading, we learned that this bird is easily frightened, so we must not make sudden movements and must sing it's name.

Here is the video of us trying to attract the Lirpaloof bird.

We called and called the bird.  We looked high in the tree, since that is where they like to live.  We looked in three high trees.  

When we got back to the classroom, Mrs. Wanke said she was going to explain how the Lirpaloof bird got it's name.  She wrote the name Lirpaloof.  She showed use that lirpa is APRIL spelled backward and loof is FOOL spelled backward!

We were not impressed!  She sure got us good!