Extreme Classroom makeover

I wanted to give you all a chance to "preview" our new reading lounge.

Of course, I don't want to give it all away, so these are just a few hints...

Genres for our reading

The Crazy Classroom

This week we are working on figurative language, onomatopoeia is a sound, Example: POP! BOOM! BANG! CRASH! There are also Similes which compares two things using “like” or “as”.Example: The puppy is as fluffy as a   fur coat. She also showed us a song called ‘POP Goes My Heart.’ I thought she was insane when she was dancing to the song it was so funny! 

She also is making a reading lounge in the room next door and there was a really fun thing that happened  when she was asking the class separately what we think would make reading more fun and I said we should come up with a reading corner and she already asked Mrs.Raleeh if we could do it. S o now the room next door  is now the reading lounge. I cannot wait to go into it when it is done I hope it will be fun.

By: Audrey

The V8 Shake

This week we will be learning how to use figurative language for example “Due dates are like warning signs passing on the ride of a lifetime”. We were surprised when Mrs. Moseley introduced 'POP goes my heart! I thought she didn’t have a v8. I’m a student and I thought we were in for a fun ride. Boy I’m still banged up from shaking my behind too hard. ANYWAY, I think she is going to make us do readers theater just a rumor spreading. But I can’t believe I’m excited for Mondays now.

By Justin R.

First Two Weeks!

The first two weeks of school we were learning how to pick out a good book and about the classroom expectations. We had fun learning all those new things.  We also learned to buzz with other students about our ideas. People in some groups had really good ideas. Some other things we did were talk about our reading and if we needed to work on reading or was just right where we were. It was a very fun and tiring first 2 weeks of school!

By Nadia

Getting excited

Back to School sales, fancy new backpacks, tax free weekend, can you feel it?

It's that time again!

School is starting in less than two weeks. I am so excited to meet my new students. I know I have some who are so excited about school, but there are others who are dreading it.

If I could have a pre-school year conversation with my students, I would tell them how excited I was to meet them. I would tell them that this might be their best year yet. I might even admit that I was probably as nervous (or more so) as they are about the first day. For sure, I would tell them that I promise to do my absolute best to make this year the most interesting, fun, and challenging year they ever had. I would tell my soon-to-be students that I promise to love them. I may not always call on them in class when they have been raising their hand for what seems like an hour, or understand when they get frustrated with another student who may or may not have taken their favorite eraser. But I will love them.

So, the 2011-2012 school year is rapidly approaching. You know what I say to that?

Let's do this!