The state winner for the South Carolina Children's Book Award was Wonder by R.J. Palacio. We are loving it as a read-a-loud currently!
Dress as your favorite book character day was super fun March 7!
Waiting for the play, "Freedom Train" to start at Ovens Auditorium!
IHES fourth grader picked The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell as their favorite book!
Scroll through to see the heady competition for South Carolina Book Award voting!! I was so proud to have the LARGEST voting contingency in the school!
How is a non-fiction informational text different from our fiction books?
What is Cause and Effect and how can we determine it?
Are you able to use your tools to determine the main idea?
Different types of print change the way you read and alter your fluency!
As you read, think! When you have a thought recall what you have read!
use your thoughts as you recall what you have read in your Reading Response Journals
When you use your opinion you are persuading someone to think the way you do!
Try your writing skills to persuade The Jolly Old Elf
Are you creating a narrative worth reading?
Make sure your thoughts and paragraphs flow with natural transitions. Don't write a jumbled mess!
Is the Point of View First or Third Person?
Adding a handful of adverbs always enhances writing!
Are you being helpful when you peer edit?
CONGRATULATIONS to Xavier the first student in class to read five South Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees qualifying him to go to voting party next semester!
It's very exciting hearing the adventures of Blitzen, Dasher, and Vixen each day!
NOTHING beats a good book, especially a spine tingling, thriller. Only having one copy available in the library doesn't stop this trio (Isabella, Franci and Adrienne) from reading this obvious page turner!
Adrienne's double whammer home run slam on DLR
The Supreme Theorists perform a Readers Theater based on the Triangular Trade!
while practicing fluency they are also learning about the historical fiction genre
woo hoo, we were excited on November 5 for the release of the newest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, we have the latest edition so we were NOT facing Hard Luck!!!
Why would we make a list like this????
To make SPOOKTacular Haunted House descriptions like this!!!!!
The use of earphones makes our learning our own!
and believe or not we read actual books!!!!!!
Common Core skill practice on their MobyMax accounts!
Using our library center for a variety of reasons!!!!
Julio and Zae are excitedly working toward rewards on their ScootPad accounts
Working hard to answer their novel questions!
the new face of pair reading using buddy brain power and team work to achieve our goals
These are others ways you can prove your answers! Start your response with these phrases to make your teacher aware that you have the facts to back up an answer!
Can you PROVE you answer or have you just memorized passages?????
We introduced the process of inferences a few weeks ago. Make sure you are inferring into everything you read!
I see some awesome potential for a fabulous year based on this thinking!
here is there final product for greatness expected from me, I love that they expect the same manners from me I expect from them
Students think of what makes a great classmate and a great teacher for their VERY FIRST Writing assignment
I can already see super potential in my writers!
Students took their time to create a great compilation of thoughts!
In order to make our classroom library efficient and user friendly, students must classify and organize the books based on a system of their choosing.
Almost all the books have been tagged by genre and type with in that genre, students then must decide how to best group the books.
It is a HUGE undertaking, our class library contains hundreds of books!
Many of the books a unfamiliar to students so it takes careful determination to decide how to group it with other titles!
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It took almost all class period on our second day of school but it was worth it to have the order to our wonderful class library!