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10 Black Dots
We have been doing an author study on Donald Crews during writing workshop. We talked about how Donald calls himself an idea collector and we have been using his books to write list books. During math we read Donald Crew's book 10 Black Dots and created our own "black dot" pictures.
3 black dots can make a smiley face
4 black dots can make a leopard
4 black dots can make an alien
2 black dots can make a cat
10 black dots can make soldiers
3 black dots can make a boat
8 black dots can make an alien
Gigi's Window
One of the sweetest people I know wrote the sweetest story about a little girl's visit to New York City to see her grandmother. Gigi's Window is a great story to use as a mentor text for writing workshop. So many children will be writing stories about visiting their grandparents after reading this book. Thank you Missy for writing this book and for inviting me to its premier and your first book signing! I hope it is your first of many because I am already looking forward to your next book:) If you would like to learn more about Missy and her book visit gigiswindow.com.
Missy reading us her book in front of Gigi's window.
If You're a Monster and You Know It
We have been reading lots of books about monsters and doing lots of monster activities. We read Ed Emberly's new book If You're a Monster and You know It and made monsters out of Model Magic.
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Wow!!!!
I am soooo excited....my blog just won an award!!!
Thank you to whoever out there found my little blog and decided that it was award worthy!!
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Happy October!!
We started off October with reading Go Away Big Green Monster and creating our own monsters.
We also read Pumpkin Heads and made our own pumpkin heads.
(Click on the pictures to make them bigger and have your child find their big monster and pumpkin head.)
Our Ann Marie Corgill Inspired Portraits
I met this amazing person this summer...Ann Marie Corgill. She is the author of the book Of Primary Importance: What's Essential in Teaching Young Writers. As you can see on the cover of her book, she has her students make self portraits to hang in her room. I knew from the second I finished reading this book that I wanted to have my students make these portraits.
So here they are...the Ann Marie Corgill inspired portraits my students created. They are on the wall for the duration of the rest of the year as a reminder of how amazing my students are and how they are the focus of what happens every day within the four walls of our classroom.
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