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I have been trying to figure out what to write about for the last few hours. It is not like we did nothing today. A lot happened. We started to talk about genres (our focus for the week). In our read aloud Albie was a hero. He stood up for a girl who was being picked on. He was rewarded with a little red gummy bear and a new friend. I really fell in love with the book today.

In writing we read the book Tulip Sees America by Cynthia Rylant. It was an amazing read. The class noticed the way that Rylant organized the text. A simple sentence at the beginning of a section that she was about to describe. Then of course her amazing writing. Then the section would end with a new version of that simple sentence that started the section. The class went out and wrote. The writing was so Rylant-ish. Students were trying this new trick we learned today or the "and" sentences we have noticed or the close echo. All these things that we have been noticing in Rylant's writing are starting to add up. I cannot wait to see the finished project that comes out of all this work.

In Social Studies we moved from talking about the Paleo tribe to the Archaic tribe. We are going to compare and contrast the two groups. Today the students worked on reading an article about the Archaic. They used two highlighters to code the text. One color was for all the things that were the same about the tribes and the other was for all things that were different.

I guess that is pretty good for a day and a blog post. I hope you are all having a great start to your week.