This week was one big event after another, it seems! I am finishing up grading and working on report cards this morning, so I am going to let your small people fill you in on all the details. Here are some conversation starters: Tell me about your trip to Cassano's! What did you see? What surprised you? What was the coolest thing you learned? **Make sure you check out the previous blog post for pictures from our trip! iMovie Wonder book trailers...Who did you work with? Tell me how you chose to highlight the themes of this book. How did you make the trailer? **I will be loading these trailers on to this blog next week so that you can see them all. They are FABULOUS! Mystery Party...What mystery did you work to solve? Who were the suspects? Did you solve the mystery correctly? What did you enjoy the most? Long Division...We are up to three digit dividends and one digit divisors. Quotients are at times whole numbers, and at other times remainders reported as fractions. Ask your child to show you what they know and teach you the song/dance we learned to help us remember the process for solving long division problems. Immigration Unit...Ask your child to tell you how to define an immigrant. Ask him/her about the books he/she is reading presently and about the books he/she will be reading. Ask him/her to share with you how he/she is documenting his/her thinking. Harmanize...Ask your child to tell you about the Harmanize event on Friday. Ask your child about the French and sign language he/she learned and about the foods he/she tasted! So I sent an email to Wonder author RJ Palacio. I wanted to share the class comments about her book so she would know how much we enjoyed reading and discussing Wonder. Below is her response to me:
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April Mescher
1/20/2013 02:29:18 am
The comments from RJPalacio are awesome!! Loved the book - everyone in our family read it and then passed it on to another family to read! Thanks for all you do to make learning fun for the kids!
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Kimberly Walther
1/20/2013 10:29:40 pm
I'm glad to know that your family enjoyed this book! I loved reading this with the class and discussing themes like bravery, forgiveness, family and friendship. I can't wait for you all to see the trailers the kids created for promoting this book. So great!
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