Penguins and the Magic E

The girls are using all of their new penguin knowledge to write a non-fiction penguin book.  The book, entitled "Penguins," contains a table of contents, information the girls have learned about penguins, as well as illustrations and a penguin diagram.

The girls were introduced to the magic e last week during language arts.  We watched a short video from The Electric Company (brings back some memories, doesn't it?) that highlighted how the magic e changes a vowel's sound.  Afterwards we brainstormed some short vowel words then used the silent e to change the word.

Today the girls worked together to add the magic e to the end of three letter words and then sorted those words into real and nonsense categories.