An Accent

In our new read aloud book Nuts to You one of our squirrels Jed was taken by a hawk and dropped far from his home. Two squirrels from Jed's home decide to set off on a journey to find and bring back their friend. I am loving this book so far. Even though our quest has just begun I know that we are in for a bit more of an adventurous book than our other read aloud books.

One of my favorite parts of the book is that Jed has found himself in a new part of the forest with a very different type of squirrel. These squirrels have a tint of red in their fur and love to eat pine cones. I think the class also loves the accent of the new squirrels. I believe the accent the author was trying for was Scottish. I have been trying my hardest to recreate the accent. I have failed. I am awful at accents. At best I am pulling off a terrible Australian accent.

Even with my accent failing I am loving this book.

In Social Studies we got to move on to talk about the three branches of our government. One of our goals is to teach the class the different responsibilities of the three branches. Today we started with the legislative branch and their responsibility of making laws. If you are going to discuss how laws are made, there is only one video to show. 

We challenged the class to listen to the video and then put the steps of how a bill becomes a law in order. The tables raced to see which group could complete the task first. We were amazed to see how quickly the groups were able to place the steps in order after just two viewings.

Hope you are having a great week.