Reading Week Day 3!

What a wonderful Wednesday that we had!  Our dress-up theme today was Who's Who Wednesday.  Can you guess who all these kiddos are dressed up as?

Even the teachers got in on the fun!  Can you identify all the characters?  :)

Mystery Readers

Today, we had several mystery readers!  Our first mystery reader was Adam's mom (Mrs. Link).  She brought in yummy donut holes for us to enjoy as she read two books to us: Leonardo the Terrible Monster and Old Granny and the Bean Thief.

Chance & Luci's dad surprised them as our second mystery reader of the day!  He read two Eric Carle classics: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Quiet Cricket.  To keep with the animal/insect theme the other book Mr. Gillion read was A Duck So Small.

Our third mystery reader was Quentin's mom (Mrs. Lea) and she also read two books.  The first book was Socks for Supper, and while the kiddos listened to this book they enjoyed fruit snacks.  The second book Mrs. Lea read was Round Trip.  This is a really neat book and had a special surprise in the middle - ask your kiddo what surprised them or what was special about this book.

Caitlin's mom (Mrs. Bond) was our fourth mystery reader today.  She read to us Frankenstein and Madeline.

After lunch, we had several mystery readers!  First, Aiden T.'s mom surprised him by coming in and reading Bartholomew and Oobleck.  The moral of the story was the importance of saying sorry.

On Wednesdays, we are lucky enough to have three college students that spend the day with us!  Today each of them read a book.  Ms. Maher read Miss Nelson is Back, a book that she read a lot as a kid.  Ms. Meyer read Nana in the City, and Ms. Herndon read My School is a Zoo.

Writing & Reading

Today we worked hard on our second reason paragraph of our opinion writing.  We focused on making sure that our conclusion sentence was summing an opinion versus summing up an informational piece of writing.  When we wrote informational writing, we used a conclusion sentence like, "Now you know all about ____."  We worked on writing an opinion conclusion sentence that is similar to, "The reason why ____ is a great place to live is because ___."  The students did a great job with this!!!

At the end of the day, the kiddos enjoyed being able to either read or write.  We had kiddos working on some really fun books that were either inspired by books that they have read or from their own ideas.  Just look at how hard all them were working!!!

Tomorrow's Read Week dress-up day is Think Green in honor of Green Eggs & Ham - so dec your child out in green from their head to their toes tomorrow!!!  Have a wonderful evening & I hope that you get a chance to get out & enjoy this beautiful weather!

Mrs. Ross and Ms. Hackmann