Ohio

The room was filled with scarlet and gray today. It was fun to watch how excited some of the students were for tonights game. It was a little scary that Mr. Franz and Mr. Boeke were more excited than the kids. I found the picture above on a desk during indoor recess. 

In read aloud our book is amazing. 

The Newbery Medal will be announced at the end of January. I think this book has an amazing chance to medal. The story is heartbreaking. Today we saw how our main character Rose is treated by her fellow classmates. I am not sure how the class feels about the book but it is quickly becoming my favorite read aloud of the year.

In the book our main character Rose collects homophones. Rose is consumed by her homophone list and finding new homophone pairs and trios to add. In the book which is written in Rose's voice you can see the homophones written directly on the page. Here is an example of what I mean:

"From our porch you can see our front yard and our driveway and our road, which is called Hud Road. Road has two homonyms--rowed and rode. On the other side (sighed) is a little forrest"

We have started to collect homophones like Rose. Students are writing down homophone pairs and trios on notecards. Then we take the notecards and start to play games. The game we have been playing the most is homophone memory. It is fun to watch the class search for homophones and then only get to keep their homophones if they can explain what the words mean. 

I hope your week is off to a great start and if you are enjoying the game that you are managing to stay calm.