Wednesday Wonders

Our child of the day, Sofia, read Thank You, Amelia Bedelia. She chose this book because during readers' workshop she read it and thought it was funny. We certainly did enjoy it! Listen later to her video off the website!

I love how a few of the kids are writing to each other on the BLOG!!!! That's fantastic....and that's literacy in the 21st century! Part of our job as teachers is to prepare today's students for tomorrows technology. This is the first step: the blog! This summer I will be working on a wiki to use so that kids can actually communicate to each other through the wiki site. They will also be able to post homework on the site instead of bringing in papers. All perfectly safe as I control who can access it and who can communicate.

We continued to synthesize the poem Jabberwocky today. Tomorrow we will finish up with inferring and then take a look at our mental images. We also began a poetry writing unit today as we looked at how poets write.

We also had a visit from our new (finalist) superintendent: Dr. Torres. What an honor to have him visit our school and classroom.

Tomorrow will be a very, very, very busy day. We have the book fair at 8:30. We will go outside to listen to the South Elgin High School Band at 9:15, then music at 9:40. We have our Junior Achievement representative in right after lunch, followed by art. Phew....that's a lot!

Have a great night!