October 5, 2015 - October 9,2015

We are reading Home-Grown Butterflies in class this week. It’s a real story about how people raise butterflies in Costa Rica. In this one village, there were fewer and fewer fish to eat and sell for money. Soon they would have to cut down trees from the rain forest in order to farm the land. A scientist taught the school kids how to start a butterfly farm! They now sell the pupae, or eggs, to zoos. Our conclusion is that those kids are serious about protecting their environment. 

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Keegan

September 28, 2015 - October 2, 2015

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Alex

September 21, 2015 - September 25, 2015

In My Very Own Room, a young girl is sharing a room with five brothers. What she wants more than anything is to have her own room. Because of the title, we think the girl will get her room in the end. We keep making predictions as we read. Predictions are good guesses about what will happen next, and they’re based on clues the author has given. Making predictions is fun—it’s like solving little mysteries! The predictions also keep us involved in the story.

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Antonio

September 14, 2015 - September 18, 2015

This week our class is reading a story titled Wolf!  The story is about a wolf that sees other animals reading books and wants to read, too.  We can tell how the characters are alike and how they are different.  They are alike because they are all talking animals.  The pig, duck, and cow can read but the wolf can't.  That's a way the characters are different.  It's fun to compare and contrast the characters as we read.

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Rylie

September 8, 2015 - September 11, 2015

Our class is reading about people that help the environment.  In Earth Smart, the main idea is that Goodwillie Environment School is a green school.  A green school is friendly to the environment.  The details tell more about the main idea.  I read that the school's walls and floors were built with recycled materials.  As we keep reading, there will be other details that tell me more about this green school.

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Maddix

August 31, 2015 - September 4, 2015

In Amazing Grace, we’re reading about a girl who loves to act out stories. Grace wants to be Peter Pan in her class play. Kids in the class tell her that she can’t be Peter because Grace is a girl. Another girl tells Grace she can’t be Peter because she’s African American. Grace stops believing she can get the part and tells her family. We wonder what will happen next. We see how one thing makes another thing happen.

Anti-bullying 

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Christopher

August 24, 2015 - August 28, 2015

This week, we're reading First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg. The story is about Sarah, who doesn’t want to get out of bed and go to her new school.  We will be learning about character, setting, and plot this week in reading. We're keeping track of who is in the story, where and when it takes place, and what happens.  This story has a very funny ending. 

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Stephen