Big Cats

Last week we began to learn about the features of non-fiction books.  We talked about the organization of non-fiction books and how wonderful it is that you can pick up a non-fiction book and start reading it anywhere.  There is no beginning, middle and end like in story books!  We also learned that most, but not all fact books have a table of contents, an index and a glossary (which is really like a mini dictionary!)  Our class got a fantastic book from the book fair called Big Cats.  It is a fascinating book because on the flip side is information all about Elephants which we are excited to read during our next guided reading sessions. 

After reading about Big Cats, Mrs. Betts introduced us to a new response sheet.   On this response sheet we choose facts that we have read and that are new and interesting to us and record them on the paper. We also spend time illustrating our fact because we learned that lots of information comes from illustrations!  Here is a sample of some of our work!  We are really proud of our selves.  We can't wait to read more information books!