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