I love my job

I really have the best job in the world. Today, my third grade students worked at organizing information, using flashcards in various categories. My favorite category: things that you find under your bed! It's a quick lesson and fun for the kids and relates to the organization and classifying skills that are required of them.

Then, with my next class, I introduced Reader's Theater. We read through a script from Roald Dahl's Matilda, specifically, the scene in which Matilda hides a talking parrot in the chimney and convinces her family that the house is haunted. We talked about how the characters were feeling and the ways in which their voices can reflect those feelings. Next Friday, we'll break up the class into smaller groups and take different roles.

With my two fourth grade classes today, we worked first on finding information on people in the encyclopedia and on finding information on your own topic. This last exercise is called FIND FIVE FACTS. As part of their multi-genre research project, we will be finding five facts several times. There might be groaning and rolling of eyes. Oh well!