Blake was our child of the day and he read a book by Jan Brett: Hedgie Blasts Off! He decided to read this book because he knows how much we like Jan Brett books and Hedgie the Hedgehog! Check the website later tonight or tomorrow for a video of Blake reading so you can enjoy it too. Click on the classroom website to the right (Mrs. Stringham's Community of Learners), then scroll down to the button labeled child of the day 2, then click on Blake. Natalie is there, too!
We finished reading Princess Penlope's Parrot and inferring character traits. We also learned a lesson about ourselves in how we want others to react to us. During reading workshop time I was very pleased with a book club discussion of the book Poppy by Avi. Nicholas, Grier, Meghan and Nicole (3 seniors and 1 junior!) did a great job talking about the characters and their character traits and how they reacted to each other. It was a great discussion of the book and again, halfway through, I wished I had filmed it!
We read the story The Green Secret and began our work on vocabulary. We also read the book Tuesday by David Wiesner and learned that one way we can organize our writing is through the use of time. We will work more tomorrow on transition words.
In math, juniors learned about the function machine (see if they can describe it to you!) and seniors worked on arrays and multiplication.
Don't forget we are collecting new and gently used books for the Book Worm Angels to donote to the Chicago Public Schools! I've donated some from the classroom where we have triplicates and from home. Step up and make a difference!
Drive carefully in the snow!
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