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Welcome students and parents of room 306! This site is your student blog for this classroom year. That means that posts will relate to your written work and thoughts, projects, and of course your successes. Here's to the start of a fabulous year!

Character Gallery

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Today was the final day of our character unit (besides the celebration of course!) First we began with the presentations of our modern adaptations of the Outsiders. Then we moved into our classroom "Gallery" to view our completed Character Projects. In the gallery students were given a scoring sheet to critique the work of each of their peers. This is an awesome activity where students get the opportunity to showcase their hard work. They also get to view the work of others which helps them to analyze their own efforts and compare and contrast their work to that of others in their class. It was a fun way to wrap up the past 5 weeks of work!

November Student Starfish of the Month-Erica

Meet our November Student Starfish, Miss Erica. Erica is one of the few quiet students in this chatty group, so it could be easy to overlook her stellar performance if it weren't for her incredible voice in writing. Erica may not like speaking aloud in class, but her writing shares her awesome analytical thinking. You've done a great job Erica and I'm very proud of you!

October Student Starfish of the Month-Kaylee

Here is our November Student Starfish of the Month, Kaylee! Kaylee is an awesome leader in class. She works hard on every single assignment, is extremely creative, and a wonderful reader. Kaylee thanks for your hard work in class!

Isaiah's Response

Dear Jason

I chose On My Honor as a book to read because it looks interesting from the front page because it has a boy sitting down looking all worried. The other reason is because I read the fist and second page of the book it was about two boys there names where Joel and tony Joel wonted tony to climb the starved rocks in the bluffs but tony was scared that he will die .So that’s whey I had chose the book On My Honor to read.

I like this book because it had really good detail and ideas in the book Jason you should read this book because it is a good story to read and tell about and it has a lot of detail and idea in it to understand the whole book and not get confused.

I rate this book a ten because of all the perfect details and the way the author had explained his self in the story. And when I was reading this I didn’t won’t to stop because of the author and his grate detail.

Reading this story made me make sense of the world by to obey your mother and father . And when you say a promise to them like in this book Joel and tony told there parent that they are going to the park but they really went to the river and swam and wone of the kids had drown and the kid had died. And the point of the book is to keep your promise.

Joey's Response

Dear Brandi and Bailey,

The book I read was George Washington’s socks by Elvira woodruff. These five kids named Mat, Katie, Q, Hoot, and Tony and they take a walk to a take and they find a boat that when they got in it they went bake in time to Christmas eve 1776.When George Washington is traveling a crossed the Delaware river. And when Mat get lost what will happen. Will the others find him? Will they get back to there own time? Find out in George Washington socks.

I liked this book because it was exiting and interesting. I think you should read it because it keeps you hooked in some parts and you can’t stop reading it. The author is good at describing things like how people look and there emotions

If rated this book it would be an 8.5 because 7 is to low and so is 8 and it wasn’t good enough to be a 9 or a10. And some parts were exiting and some parts were like I don’t care about that.

This story helped me make sense of the world because not all things are great some times what you wish mite not be as awesome as you thought and I think that is the author’s message. And I learned if you now about history you are more prepared for the future.

Tyler's Response

Dear Ivan,

My book is called “Baseball fever” the author’s name is Johanna Hurwitz. This book is about a boy named Ezra. In the family he is so different from his older brother Harris and his mom and dad. His family is nerds (kind of). Ezra loves the sport baseball and usually he never misses a single baseball game if it is on TV. And if Ezra’s dad see’s him watching TV then he will get really mad because he thinks’ that baseball is a waste of time…And all the father does is play’s chess and wants his kids to be experts at it just like he is. But I don’t really think Ezra can be a perfect chess player when he love’s baseball so much because all he really does is talk’s about baseball watches baseball on the TV every night. But I think Ezra’s older brother Harris can because he listened to his father so then he became a nerd kind of.

I liked this book because it is about a sport that I like to play, with all of my friend’s. My partner should try reading this book because; the book has great details and it just doesn’t talk about 1 thing and then go immediately to the next thing. My partner should also try reading this book because maybe he enjoys playing baseball with his friend’s to.

This may be one of the best books I have ever read because it includes a lot of detail and most books that I have read are hard to understand and I don’t really give them a very high rating. And I would also recommend this book to most of my other friends then just my partner because most of my friends love baseball.

The author doesn’t really use big words that the reader can’t understand. The author likes to make things more clear by putting them in small sentences that the reader can just read along instead of trying to pronounce really big words. The author includes a lot of detail which makes it better to read. The author also explains the character’s personally really “EXCELLENT”. Ezra seems like he loves baseball to death!

He’s never even missed a game on TV, he knows like all the baseball player’s names and he is just way different from his brother Harris and his parents. Mom and dad like chess and they are freaks at that game. And they are nerds because they know everything. The dad is a champion at chess, because everybody in the family always talks about he great he is.
On a scale from 1 to 10 I would give this book a 10 because it includes a lot of good details. It deserves the number because it talks about what the characters like and what they don’t like. And the author especially explains the characters personally! Gosh I can not stop saying this so many times because to me it is really outstanding. And in most of the books I have ever read in my entire life don’t even really explain the characters all they do is just introduce the characters at first and the just skip right ahead to the story!

This book helped me make sense of the world by telling me don’t judge people of what they like and dislike. Because you just can’t try to get them to like something that they don’t like. I think the author’s message was trying to get people entertained of what this 10 year old boy can do with baseball. What I personally learned from this story was that when brother’s and sister’s are in the same family they are all not the same. They may like some thing’s the same but not all of it….

Sincerely,
Tyler