Crazy Professor Reading Game

It’s been a long, but productive first week back in the classroom.  To end the week in a new and different way, the students were surprised this afternoon when they came back from recess and discovered the coaches in the front of the room wearing beads, leis, and party hats. After many predictions, they [...]

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Book Character Parade

We always know when spring has arrived when it’s time for the annual Book Character Parade. Everyone was very enthusiastic yesterday and the costumes were wonderful. Because the school is so big, many actually commented that it was the first time they had toured several of the classrooms. This year we welcomed [...]

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The Green Sticker-Wumps and the Lorax

We had so much fun with our Newbery Award Blog, “The Golden Sticker” that our classes are once again coming together for another reading unit. This time our books will center on literature that focuses on an environmental problem. The four books that we are starting with are “Hoot”, “Tucker’s Countryside”, “Night of [...]

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A Letter to Night of the Twisters

Last month my reading group read the book Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman. The genre is realistic fiction and tells the story of the actual night of June 3, 1980 in Grand Island, Nebraska when seven tornadoes touched down. The story which takes place over a 24 hour period has [...]

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