Flashlight Friday

Have you ever noticed that doing anything in the dark makes it suddenly much more interesting? That is the thinking behind Flashlight Friday, our now once per week special activity. We spent a couple of minutes seeing how cool our lights looked on the ceiling and shining on our friends, then it was back to the books. Try it yourself sometime!

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Epic!

This week I introduced my students to Epic! Epic! is an application with over 10,000 high quality books that students can read or hear read to them. The best part is that the students can choose their book preferences ahead of time so that books that are of interest to them appear on their book shelves. Some students prefer to read paper books, but for those that prefer digital, Epic! is a great option.

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Making Comics

This week, as part of the Global Read Aloud, we read Exclamation Mark. We talked about when we use exclamation marks and then the students all used an app called Book Creator to make a very short comic. All of the comics have exclamation marks! You can see each student’s creation on their blog. Here are a couple to tantalize you.

The Global Read Aloud

For the past couple of weeks, our class has been involved in the Global Read Aloud. This year, the picture book author we are studying is Amy Krause Rosenthal. Classes all over the world are using the same book.
Last week, the book we talked about was called Chopsticks. It inspired us to see how many thing we could do with one chopstick or with two. Drumming was an obvious and very popular choice.

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The students took their chopsticks home to see what else they could find to do with them.
This week, the book we read was Duck! Rabbit!

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We talked about clouds and the shapes we have seen in them. Then, we made our own pictures based on Ms. Rosethal’s book.

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We also had a Skype call with Ms Lirenman’s class in Surrey to show them our pictures and to talk about the book.

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Stone Soup

With Thanksgiving coming up this weekend, throughout the last week we thought about being thankful, about sharing and about giving. Before the long weekend, we read Stone Soup together, a story about sharing.

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Of course, we also had to make soup together. The verdict was not unanimous, but most students thought stone soup was delicious!

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The Letter H

We’ve been reviewing all of the letters and their sounds. Today we focused on the /h/ sound. Just look at all the marvelous things we brought that start with this sound. How many different h words can you see? I see happy kids!

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