Day 3: Read My Shirt and Reading Help

The Girls

Read Across America Day 3:  Read My Shirt Day.  25 of 27 students were able to find a clever shirt to wear...and no inappropriate ones to cover up! 

The Boys

 Here is yesterday's strange conversation about getting ready for Read My Shirt Day:
Student 1:  "Do you have a shirt with words?"
Stuentt 2:  "No, I am going to Wal-Mart tonight."
Student 1: "I like to go to Wal-Mart on Thursday nights"

Stumped me!  Any thoughts on special events at Wal-Mart, on Thursdays?

 

Can You Help?  I need some ideas from my blogging family.  During Reading Round-Up, my group of readers is reading Charlotte's Web.  There are about 30 readers, all fluent and good readers.  There still is quite a bit of variety in the speed with which the read.  We meet for 30 minutes, four days a week and I assign a set amount of pages for them to read.  What do I do with the kids who get there first.  Right now I have them reread, so the text stays with them.  Thoughts, ideas, suggestions...what do you all do?





We read Oh the Thinks You Can Think, another of my favorite Dr. Seuss books and Abby @ The Inspired Apple has the cutest little unit using the books.  So we made our own "Thinks" and had some clever things to think.

Think of going down a slide into a T-Rex

Each student traced and cut out the pieces for their think.  They wrote their think on paper, with Sharpie, and then drew their mental image for what they think.
They turned out pretty cute.  Thanks Abby for the fun idea.

Happy Wednesday!
Laurie
PS  Some of our Potato Characters are making it to class and I just can't wait to show you what some kiddos have come up with:

Hagrid

Fancy Nancy

Fly Guy

Splat the Cat

Story Sunday

I lost the weekend...if any of you know where it went, let me know!  I am back with my weekend list of what I plan to read aloud this week.

Here they are:

It is Read Across America Week at our school so obviously many Dr. Seuss books will be read especially these ones.

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett--There are not words for how great this story is!  A little girl knits and knits and knits and gives away her creations, never running out of yarn.  One day an archduke demanded to buy her yarn and she refuses to sell.  So he steals it.   But when he opens the box of yarn, it is empty.  And if you want to know the rest, you will have to read it yourself:-)

The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow--We are still working on writing our own personal narratives, and this is another great author to emulate as we get all the details of our stories down on paper.


Currently taking suggestions for a new chapter read aloud.  We just finished The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.  And choosing the chapter book read aloud is so difficult for me!

For more March picks check out Mrs. Parker's Linky Party.

Happy Sunday,
Laurie
P.S.  Thanks for all the blog award love!  That will be addressed in a future post!

Read Across America Week

I am loving all the fabulous "Read Across America" activities....as opposed to anything labeled, "Seuss.":-)  At our school, we have a week long celebration and teachers can choose to participate as much or as little as they like.
Each teacher has an overview of the week and then we send home a half sheet with students so they are in the loop too!

Pumpkin David

Potato Big Bad Wolf and Pigs

The past few years, we have had Book Character Day, but so many kids just wear Halloween costumes that we wanted to think of an alternative.  I had seen the cute pumpkin characters.....but acquiring pumpkins might be difficult at this time of year, so....here is what we found!  Literary Potatoes...turn a potato into your favorite book character!

I can't wait (although first we have to get through the 100th day!)

Happy Tuesday,
Laurie

For more Read Across America ideas check out the linky parties over at Mrs. Bainbridge's Class,  Learning With Mrs. Parker, and Little BlogFish

And just for fun...some cute past years of Book Character Day.