Tis the Season...

...to read a good book. Even though it isn't officially December 1st we have started reading lots of holiday stories in reading class this week! This particular group of third graders read Christmas in the Big Woods.
They are thrilled to be getting into the holiday spirit!

Next on the list is Aunt Eater's Christmas Mystery.

Rules Powerpoint Presentations

Mrs. Dermady's 5th grade reading group was finally able to present their Rules PowerPoint Presentations to their class yesterday. Each student was given a topic from the book and they were asked to create a slide regarding their topic. I was thrilled with the amount of effort and creativity that they showed.
Topics included; An overview of the book, describing the main characters, likes and dislikes, information about the author and the theme or message of the book.

Students added clip art, backgrounds, and were even able to personalize the font.

We were given a 3+ out of 4 score from our audience (the class!)

Way to go 5th grade readers!

The book we are now currently reading is called Schooled and it is extremely challenging, but very interesting. We dislike when class time is over because we want to KEEP READING!

Informational Text

New York State has encouraged us to add 50% more Informational Text into our daily teaching so we are jumping right into it in reading class. We are currently working on a butterfly unit with Mrs. McCullouch's group of readers. They are loving every minute of it!

The Janitor's Boy

Would you chew thirteen pieces of bubble gum and then smear them on the bottom of a school desk because you were angry at your dad who was also the custodian of the school?? That is the question and experiment that we had in reading class yesterday afternoon. I gave all of my students three pieces of gum, had them chew, take it out and then asked them to stick it under their desks. They looked at me like I was insane. This was our introduction into the new book we will be reading for the next month...The Janitor's Boy.
The gum was a major hit!

Put this under my desk are you crazy??

YUCK!

We can't wait to dive into this book!

Homonym Bingo with 5th grade after a long week! They had a BLAST!

GORP

We just finished reading The Adirondack Kids; Book 1. For our final project we made GORP (granola, oats, raisins and peanuts). We also added some M&M's for a little kick. We plan to make "Save the Loons" posters and present our GORP and posters next week for the whole class.
The kids had a blast making it and loved eating some M&M's even more at the end!

Check out the book The Adirondack Kids, it is a great 4th grade book if you enjoy the outdoors and it is even set in New York State.

The funny thing is Sydney (on the left) actually has a real life twin, but for today Kira (on the right) is her twin!

See how happy they are to come to Reading Class!