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!

Farewell Matthew and Good Luck!

Fast Fact Reading Friday

Today was the first monthly Fast Fact Reading Friday. Each grade level was given a different skill to work on. The primary students had different "sight words" to practice, third grade had contractions labels, fourth grade had fact/opinion labels and fifth grade worked on homonyms. As a Reading Department we thought it would be quick, fun and educational. Here are some pictures of students and Mrs. Dermady. I harassed her because she had forgotten to give her kids their labels by 10am so by 10:30am she was ready and went above and beyond the calling for the activity.

Third graders had to either tell what contraction the two words created and spell it correctly or break apart the contraction and tell what two words it came from.

Fifth graders had to tell the difference between the two homonyms.

I am so happy that our first FFRF went so well!