Thursday, March 19th

Hello All!

Today in class I read a book called "The Story of the Milky Way, A Cherokee Tale" by Joseph Bruchac, for the nonfiction read aloud. As a class we talked about different lessons that could be based off this book. Some of the ideas we came up with were, having students write their own folklore, acting out the story as a class, and having students research other folklores. After the read aloud we got into our writing groups to silently read over the "Written Language Analysis" assignment. When we were finished in small groups, we gathered as a class to talk about similarities we saw across the different samples. Some of these similarities were that students have a lot of trouble with homophones, students did well with indenting, capitalizing letters and using inventive spelling. No homework over break!!

Have a great Spring Break!