A Little About Our Book Buddy Time

Here you will find some photos of our book buddies.  Some of the pairs have added captions to help you understand our reading workshop a little better.  Keep checking back for more updates and to hear from all of the groups!

We were reading the Knight at Dawn.  Then we got done with the book.  So now we are reading Twister on Tuesday.  It is like exploration.

  

Katherine & I are reading a book called Frindle.  It is about a boy named Nick Allen who re-names a pen, frindle.  Lucy & I are in the middle of the book where frindle has started to become a real word.  

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We are reading the book Night of the New Magicians.  We sit knee to knee eye to eye.  Noa asks Jaylen questions in the book.  Noa helps Jaylen with words.  Noa and Jaylen love the book.

Our group, the AWESOME authors are reading IVY and BEAN books. When we read book 3 we were fascinated.  These are the rules:  knee to knee, eye to eye.  ON TOPIC.  Self monitor your talking.  Take turns.  Those are the most important rules in book buddies.  We love to read!

          

Our name is the Awesome Owls.  Our book's name is the Guardians of Ga'Hoole.  We like our group name because it's named after our book. We are the only group of three.  The main character is Soren.

Flicker the Flame Presentation

We were visited by Flicker the Flame and his friend, Ellen, from the gas company.  They came to teach us about natural gas:  What it smells like, how to avoid it, and how we use it. 

We were able to smell what natural gas smells like.  P.S. it smells terrible!

We also have a really nice group picture with Flicker that we'll hang up in our room.  Be sure to take a look next time you're visiting our classroom!

Ancient Greece Explorers

We're studying ancient Greece and we're having a great time!  One thing that all of us REALLY enjoyed was trying on togas and eating Greek food.  -Maddie

We got to try on togas.

We tasted some food from ancient Greece!

We tasted black and green olives, grapes, wheat bread, goat cheese, olive oil, and apples.  

We recognized some of the food.

Others, we weren't so sure about.

Ms. Bindas picked cards to choose who would be the "man" of the family to shop at the agora for the food.  The agora was the market in ancient Greece where mainly men bartered for food for their family. 

We watched a video about the Parthenon that showed the present-day reconstruction researchers are doing.  It's amazing to think that the ancient Greeks constructed such amazing temples without modern day technology.   Here's a few of our Parthenon sketches we did with Ms. Mary Lou in art: