Once Upon A Time... By: Horse Girl

I dedicate this book to my mom...

 Once upon a time there lived a stepmother and evil stepbrothers  And you can't for get  the princess.  They lived in a cottage.  Then they found out they were going to the ROYAL pool!! 

Priness Lilly had nothing to wear.  But fairy Hadley, the fairy god mother, came to see her!  And POOF!!  She put her in the most pretty swiming sute!  But fairy Hadley said you have to be back at midnight! If not the spell will be brocken!  She did't like that!!!  

So they went and the stepbrothers were sooooooooooo bad at swiming! But.... Lilly was NOT!  Lilly won! They never saw the evil stepmother and the evil step brother again!!  

And thats my story!!!  THE END!!

I'm Flying, I'm Soring, By: Christmas

My Fist Song Lyrics:

I'm flying.I'm soring.

The cold days are rolling in.

So I need to keep going until I get there, 

And I can't wait until I get there,

 Becauce I'm coming home. 

Playing all day till the sun comes out.  

Making newfriends. 

Just  making new frineds.

 All yaaaaaaa. 

Just making new friends. 

Having fun all day

Candyland By:Peach

Once upon a time there where 4 girls named  Jenell, Britney,Bella, and Hadley . They where in   Candyland  they  wanted  to go  to  the candy castle. So they went along on there way they saw a  licorish
forest  and liked  the licorish. And they stoped  and knocked on the door and  went in when they went in
they saw a peanut dog. They are half way there almost there YAY!!! where  here  they  shouted. I,m  hungry  said  Bella,  and  Hadley so  they  knocked. They  said  come  in.Then  Jenell,and   Britney  said  i,m  hungry. they  lived  hapiley  ever  after.  The  end

Diary of a Wimpy Cabin Fever, By: Lovebug

I am reading Diary of the Wimpy Cabin Fever!  When Greg gets cabin fever I think of my little brother because he has cabin fever!  When Greg gets a doll for Christmas I mean he's a BOY well, he lost the doll and he was upset!!!!  It reminds me of when I lost my FAVORITE toy.  I felt sad!!!  Greg knows a Mr. Underwood, and I know a Mr. Underwood!  If I compared the two Mr. Underwoods they are similar because they are both basketball coaches...

Thanks for listening to my text to self connection!

U.S.Army By, Quetionman

What I smelled while reading U.S Army

A rusty old tank

A battel feld 

Ashis

Guns

Desetroued bildings

Derty men

Swety man

Grass

Trees

Old stuf

Blood

Derty canuns

Canuballs

Dust

pirishoots.

Merry Christmas!

Sophie's Masterpiece, By Tulip

                                                                    

                                                                   A book about feelings

          Sophie is a spider who is a artist .  She likes to make stuff out of her web.  Then the day came that every spider has to do, Sophie had to find a diferent home.  She moved to Beekmens Boardinghouse.  Then one day the landlady noticed her and screamed.  So Sophie moved to a diferent place in Beekmans Boardinghouse.  She moved to a tugboat captains closet.  Then he saw her and went out the window on to the roof!!!!    Then Sophie went to a nother  room and the lady saw her and smiled and then the lady went on and was knitting booties cause she was going to have a baby.  By now Sophie is old and can not do as much things. Sophie saw her trying to make a baby blanket then Sophie heard something it was a little baby crying.  The baby blanket was not finished Sophie got a idea she made a baby blanket out of her web then it was night time.  Sophie just finished the blanket and then the lade saw it and put it on her baby!!

My Thoughts:  I would be happy at the end because she made a blanket for the baby, when she was older.  I love this part because she put her heart into it!  I can connet with her character becasue my grandma puts her heart into quilts.

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, By: Button

Summary:

Begining: The wolf was making a cake for his grandma but he ran out of surgur so hes going to borrow
some from the 1st pig and he also has the sniffles.

Middle: He acedently sneezes and  killed the 1st pig so he ate him! Then he went to the 2nd pigs house
to get a cup of sugur but he sneezed and killed that pig to! So he ate the 2nd pig and then the wolf goes to the third pig's house... to find out what happens next read, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!

Connections and Thoughts:
I would go crazy if someone talks to my grandmother like the wolf did!

I wouldn't leave food out in the middle of nowhere either.

Of course I like to prank, too!


By:  Button

Can You Keep a Secret?, By: Santa

Once upon a time there lived a boy that eveybody can trust. Every body told him there secrets. Then he put them in a magic box. One day the magic box EXPLODED.

"Oh no," said the boy, "I must catch them. But how?  Hmmmmmmmmmmmm I got it.  I will try to make a new magic box and then catch them."

"Or I could do this," said a girl. Smoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooch. the end.

QR Codes, By: Mrs. Hall

We just got a QR, here it is above.  Pretty sweet, huh?!  What is a QR?  I'll be demonstrating shortly...  Be looking for QR codes on our weekly newsletters!

I'm Away Today... By: Mrs. Hall

I'm away today (with Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Singleton, and Mr. Eichenauer) learning how to incorporate more technology into our classroom.  What an amazing way to help our students express their voice...  Our world is changing... and if I am going to be effective, I must be relevant.

I can't wait to get back and share the ideas shared by my new friend, Ruth Ayres.

Check out Ruth on her blog!  You'll see her blog on the right hand side of this page... and my dear friend, Mary Helen Gensch, both excellent relevant educators...enjoy!

Until tomorrow...

Mrs. Hall with Mr. Eichenauer....being very studious :)

Christmas is Here, By Skippy Jon Jones

Christmas is here, Christmas is here  All the joy and all the laughter will soon fill the air...

Is Christmas here???

When Pigs Fly, By: Ricky

A long time ago there was a pig on the top of a barn.

A farmer went on the top of the barn he pushed off the pig

he flew!

It was marvles.

O dang it--- I ran out of oink.

THE END

The Night Sounds, By: Sweet Cakes

I can hear the wind.  I can here the branches ruselin.  I can here the river rushen. Then the sound fades away now...

I don't know what I can hear any more.  Then...I here something keeps getting louder and louder...I can hear

I can here the sound of the night.

Just a little Poem, By:Lovebug

Dazys are yellow Rozes are red see a little flower in the meadows,
Cows in the corn the sheep are asleep the horese in the hay stack fast asleep.!

Matilda, By: Princess

I'm smelling things in books...

I smell books. I smell excitement in books. I smell reading in books.

I smell awsomeness in books. I smell pleasure in books.

Fall, By: Daisy

In Fall I love to jump in leaves
that's what makes me very pleased

I love the way the wind blows
that's what makes my hair go

"Miss Nelson is Back", By: Roxis

I am reading Miss Nelson is Back.  I sense a spring dress,   A sweaty class.  A scent of a new persen.  I
vision something the kids are going to do.  I hear the sound of a projector.  I sense a plastic mask.  I here the sound of a phone ringing.

The Black Lagoon, By: Button

A Teacher's Current Reads...By: Mrs. Hall

I read everyday.

Some days I just read a text message.

Some days I read several texts, a recipe, and a magazine ad, and read over my lesson plans.

Then there are days when I am allowed to dive deep into reading that I absolutely love.  

Call me a nerd, but there is no greater reading than reading about what I love... and that is teaching!  Currently, I am re-reading, Reading with Meaning, by Debbie Miller and Growing Readers, by Kathy Collins.  Both books filled with research based ideas to build my Reader's and Writer's workshop mini lessons... One research based finding, found in Reading with Meaning (and in several other research based educational books), is that... "Proficient readers create visual and other sensory images from text during and after reading" (Pressley 1976).  After reading this, I came across several mini lesson ideas using Kathy Collin's book on visualizing while reading.  Making movies in our mind and jumping into a book is what all great readers do....  It just so happens that my class is full of great readers....

Please enjoy the images of my student's visualizations as they post.  Also, in this mix, will be a series of documentations that include what the students are touching, seeing, feeling, smelling, and hearing as they read...

New Kid From The Black Lagoon

I can smell...  

sand  

water 

snow 

sweats 

gas oxygen
pickles
fuzzynes
rubber slobbery goose feathers
turnips
caffine
stinkysocks
scales
dirtytoes
bad breath
blood
tearore
hamburgers
nuggets
chips
sandwhitches

What I'm Smelling While Reading...By: Lexi

Lexi's Book of Choice
While reading, Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig, I am smelling:
Derty pigs-   House-      Mr. Watson-    Mrs.   Watson-  Sewer-  Lemonade- Sour  Lemons-    Baby-  Lincoln -yard  Eugenia

Dirty Shuvis      Snout      Clean  air    Beautyful flowers   ground.

What I'm Smelling While I'm Reading...By: Lexi

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 I am reading Mercy Watson thinks like a pig.   Selly pigs  Hous