Naked Mole Rat Letters Book Project

Naked Mole Rat Letters

Well,

My daughter just finished the Naked Mole Rat Letters and loved it! The book was about a young girl named Frankie who discovered through email a relationship her dad was developing with another woman, Ayana! Although Frankie's parents were divorced, she did not want her mom to be replaced. The relationship grows through email but takes interesting avenues through the emails.

Natalie will be going to middle school next fall so the choices for the upcoming summer session book club will be given from the school. We are excited to find out which books will be assigned!

Talk soon.

Mrs. M!

update on Frame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia

Well, the book was fantastic and since the book surrounds a spelling bee we are planning on creating a "team" in the near future. Probably, second and third graders. This should be fun.

Talk soon,

Mrs. M.

Fall book club

Our new book club this fall is the books written from the author Barbara O'Connor i.e. "How To Steal a Dog" and "Greetings From Nowhere". The students are excited and we will try to go through her whole series by the end of the year!

Talk soon!

Ending Tom Sawyer

Well, we finished on August 18th and watched the movie, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". What a great movie. A least the kids understood the dialect after reading the book. Jodie Foster was Becky Thatcher. Overall, the kids love the activities along with the reading and had a wonderful experience venturing through a literary classic! What an accomplishment. Congratulations to all my book club kids!

Starved Rock Adventure

Well, to continue, the book club went to Starved Rock to see a recess cave. Also, we played in a waterfall in St. Louis Canyon at Starved Rock. The kids had a blast! The last activity will be a treasure hunt in our backyard. Then we will watch the movie with Jodie Foster! Can't wait to see the students reactions and connections to the movie. Every year we wait to watch the movie after we read the book and the connections to the book are fascinating! The conversations during the movie are exciting and they get it!!!

Talk soon!

Marcia

potato sack races and built a mini wood raft

As we continue The Adventures of Tom Sawyer we see Tom and Huck have run away because of what they saw at the graveyard and their adventures on the raft and on the island. Today at bookclub we built a raft out of sticks and string and had potato sack races! Fun for all!!