I have said this before but my favorite part of the day is read aloud. It is great to sit at the rocking chair and share a book with the class. I love to hear the thinking that the class has to share about the book. This week and even last week our main character Albie has been going through a lot.
He has lost a group of friends at school and he feels that his father does not have time for him and things just keep getting worse and worse. Today Albie tossed a model airplane out of his window, his whole birthday was ruined, and his life seemed broken like that airplane that crashed to the ground.
On Monday we asked the class to think back about the book and try to fill out an A to Z list. We have done this A to Z list earlier this year during our thinking about the drought. I love the A to Z list. Students can really show off what they know about a topic or a book when they fill out these A to Z lists.
I loved some of the work that the students shared on their A to Z list. For the letter R we had red gummy bears, for D we had donuts (of course), for Z we had zombie in the bathtub, and the amazing ideas went on and on. After the class had time to fill out their A to Z list, they picked one letter that they thought was the most important to the book. Then they wrote about why that idea was so important to the book.
Hope you are having a great week.
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