Today’s Blog Message
Written by Brendan
“Awhile ago some moths laid their eggs. Now they are caterpillars. Today our buddies came and read-ed us books. At recess today I played Star Wars.”

Yesterday the other half of our class went to see a jazz band practice. We got to hear the musicians play a song and we got to try out their instruments!

Last week a group of students became very enthusiastic about a story we read in class called Elbert’s Bad Word.  These students decided to spend time during Creative Play doing Readers’ Theater activities with the story.  Readers’ Theater involves students immersing themselves in the story and discussing the story ideas and characters. They also act out the story multiple times as a student or a teacher narrates. Readers’ Theater involves exploring and discussing a story, and does not emphasize memorization of parts. Yesterday this group of students presented their Readers’ Theater play to our school community and to some family members.

Today our buddies came to visit us. We had so much fun enjoying special books with our buddies.

Several students in our classroom community have been very interested in mapping and states lately. Students were excited to try out the United States map puzzle during center time this week.

VIew more photos in our May 3-7 Photo Gallery