Final Day of Reading Week!

Our last day of Read Week was a success!! All the kiddos looked great in all their flannel & pajamas today!

Reading With the Stars!

Mrs. McKinzie worked hard on securing local stars this year for RBE's 3rd Annual Reading With the Stars!! The kiddos were given clues to try to infer who the star is.  See if you can infer (use the clues and your own schema) who each of the stars that we saw today!!

Star Reader #1 Clues:

• I enjoy writing and grammar.
• I am usually at work when you are sleeping.
• My boss hired me to ask questions and tell everyone what I learned.
• I really like peacocks and sleeping in.

Drum Roll......Mrs. Angie Bailey.  Did you infer correctly?  She read to us Actual Size and Biggest, Strongest, Fastest.  Both of the books were nonfiction books about animals.

Star Reader #2 Clues:

• I have healing hands.
• I love Mountain Dew.
• I recently walked down a "Hall."

Ms. Mottaz's class was able to listen to read was Mr. Rex Sharp (Mrs. Sharp's husband - RBE's music teacher).  Mr. Sharp is the Associate Athletic Director of Sports Medicine at MU.  He was recently inducted into the Sports Medicine Hall of Fame!  He read to us Rainbow Fish and Read to Tiger.  We watched it streaming live in the classroom.

Star Reader #3 Clues:

• I grew up in Columbia. MO.
• I can go around and around in circles and not get dizzy.
• I can go really, really fast.

Do you have an inference?  If you inferred Carl Edwards you were correct!  Unfortunately, we were not able to see him in person but we got to watch him live streamed.  He read What Do You Do With an Idea?  Then he answered a lot of questions.  You should ask your kiddo one thing that they thought was interesting about being a professional race car driver!

I might have been just a bit excited to get my picture taken with Carl Edwards.  :)

Star Reader #4 Clues:

• I can eat breakfast with you in the morning buy you can't see me.
• I ride to school with you in the morning, but you won't see me.
• I talk to thousands of people everyday but no one sees me.

The fourth star reader we listened to was Scotty and Cara from Scotty and Cara in the Morning on Clear 99.  They read How I Became a Pirate.  In person they sound just the same as they do on the radio!  After they answered several questions, they recorded us saying the Pledge of Allegiance - you will have to listen in to them in morning to hear us say the Pledge! :)

Star Reader #5 Clues:

• My busiest day is Saturday.
• I work with a striped animal.
• When I do a great job at work, my "employees" dump Gatorade on my head.  

This mystery reader was MU Football Coach Barry Odom.  The students enjoyed listening to him read Family Huddle and then they also got an autograph (should be in their Friday folder) also.  It was fun because we have his nephew, Ben, in our class.

One of the Reading With the Stars was J'den Cox!  Unfortunately, we were not able to watch him in person because the kiddos were in specials.  So we rewound the live stream of him reading, and then...J'den Cox came into our room!!!!  He sat and watched himself read the book!  It was SO COOL to have a bronze Olympic medalist sit with us.

Mystery Readers

We were lucky enough to have three special mystery readers come to our classroom today!  Our first reader was a real published author!  Janice Skinner (one of Grandma Jane's friends) wrote Parker Jane's Curls.  She came in read her book to us and then told us the process of how her book was published.  She even gave us a few books for our classroom.

Our second mystery reader was Elly (my daughter).  She read The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs.  It was super neat to have Elly read to our class!!

Our last mystery reader of the week was Ms. Benson, RBE's associate principal.  She read Ragtime Tumpie a book about Josephine Baker and played some ragtime music while she read!  Ask your child what s/he learned about her.

Gruffalo Lunch!

We have read the book The Gruffalo this year and Samuel brought in The Gruffalo's Child for us to read as well as the movie of The Gruffalo so the students ate lunch in the classroom today and watched the movie.

What's Happening Next Week?

This week has been so different with Read Week, but next week we will be going back to a normal week.  This is what we will be doing next week:

• Reading: We will be working on taking notes in our own words from nonfiction books.
• Word Study: Over the last few weeks we have worked on making present tense words past tense.  Next week, we will making singular words plural.  Our spelling words are donkeys, valleys, toys, boys, journeys, parties, candies, babies, families & ponies.
• Writing: We will continue to work on our first draft of our opinion writing about our favorite place to live.  We have completed our lead paragraph, and two supporting reason paragraphs.  Next week, we will focus on our counter argument paragraph.  After we complete our first draft, we then work on editing and revising our writing using CUPS & ARMS.
• Math: We will be finishing up our subtraction math unit.  We have scheduled our post-test for Friday.  Please continue to practice with your child on 3-digit subtraction with regrouping, even over 0.

Spring Pictures

As a reminder, spring pictures are Tuesday, March 14.  If you are wanting your child to take pictures please send in the online confirmation or the order form by Tuesday morning.  Only students who have ordered pictures will be getting their picture taken (this is a little different than some years in the past).

Movie Viewing Party

Last week, we finished our read aloud book James and the Giant Peach.  We are scheduled to go to TRYPS to watch the play next month; however, we thought it would be fun for the kids to be able to stay after school for a movie viewing party.  Our watch party will be March 22 (Wednesday before Spring Break) from 2:45-4:15.  Your child can bring a snack (must be peanut free) and a drink to enjoy during the movie.  Coming home with your child today is a permission slip.  For your child to be able to stay after school I must have a signed permission slip.  Please send in a signed permission slip by Friday, March 17.

I cannot believe that yesterday it was in the mid-70's and tomorrow it is expected to snow!  Well, that's Missouri weather for you! :)  I hope that you have a wonderful weekend & stay warm!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Ross