This week we had an assembly. It was about our
Reading Incentive. [The teacher] told us facts about Maine like people come here
to ski, Kayak, pick blueberries, pick potatoes, and hike Mr. Kataden. There were
some funny pars like Mr. I saying, "You can't get there from here." We met our
goal. We read more than 18,532 books.
Next, we had two birthdays and one
half birthday [this week]. We all brought cupcakes. We all turned 9. Out of the
birthdays one was a boy and two were girls and also it was Dr. Seus's birthday.
Some of the ways we are going to celebrate Dr. Seus's birthday are we are going
to have a guest reader and eat cake.
Next, we got a camera called an
iSight. We will communicate with a student that will be home for a month and we
will also scan books and make
movies.
We also have been doing
compare
and
contrast.
Compare
and
Contrast
is when you compare something with something els. We are comparing ourselves and
someone else from another time period. We compare and contrast ourselves to a
person back in time by using a book called,
"A Street Through Time
."
Click
the PLAY BUTTON to see
examples.
Lead can make your heart
stop with scariness...
We worked hard
on leads this week. Leads are an interesting sentence that hooks people into the
book, so they want to keep on reading. Some examples are: "There was a bang.
This time, he barely missed me." Another one was: "A last beat of his hear, and
he was gone. The king of the cats, gone forever." Those were some examples.
Leads make the reader want to read more.
Student News: March 4, 2005