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Eight Days...And Going Strong!

9/13/2009

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Our first full week of school ended with "Read Like Your Hair Is On Fire" silent reading. If you don't know what that means, ask one of the students. The phrase comes from a great (but painful) story. Students have perused the school library and checked out their own books. Did you know that we have over 5,000 individual titles in our Carmel Campus library? That doesn't even count multiple copies! Impressive.

Students have been reviewing and learning about Literary Elements (or Story Elements). They are applying these terms to their summer reading books. They are also finding images to go along with the elements and writing simple, compound, and complex sentences as narration for their pictures. These will eventually be put on Photostory 3, resulting on an audio-video presentation.

We  are  also creating our own textbooks in our  journals. Students are creating a Table of Contents, and there is a section for reading response. These journals should stick like glue to my students. They will need them every day.

We are also learning two vocabulary words a day: irenic, skosh, holus-bolus, adust, bibelot, ripsnorter, marmoreal,daedal. Ah...we are getting so smart!
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Kirsten Durfee
9/18/2009 04:24:30 am

I think those wordles are very interesting. The content makes me think and the visual they give is just cool. My guess is that the first one is President Reagan, the second is President H.W. Bush, and the third is President Obama. I wonder what the Declaration of Independence would look like... or some Dr. Seuss! I think I will go check it out! Thank you for sharing what you are doing. It makes it easier to deal with the sadness of not being able to be in a class taught by Mrs. Gates!

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