Questions for Mr. Kevin Henkes

This year we are participating in the Global Read Aloud of The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes. Reading this book has led us to questioning many things about the story and about the author. Here are some of the questions that we have for Kevin Henkes:

* What would your job be if you weren't a writer/illustrator?

* Who is your favorite character in The Year of Billy Miller? Why?

* Could you relate to the story of Billy Miller when you were a second grader?

* How did you come up with the idea to write your first book? Was it something you related to in your own life?

* How did you come up with the story,  The Year of Billy Miller?  

* Why do you write children's books? 

* How do you come up with ideas for new books?

* How many hours a day do you devote to writing?

* Have you ever thought of writing more non-fiction books?

** Friends from Ms. Whiting's 3rd grade:  How do you think Mr. Henkes will respond to our questions? **

DEBATE - SHOULD CHOCOLATE MILK BE SERVED IN SCHOOLS?

This past month a couple of the reading groups researched and planned for a debate. Each group did a great job finding evidence to support their side of the debate. I was so proud of their hard work! Here are the links to the google slide show presentations they created! I hope you enjoy checking out their work! 

Chocolate Milk SHOULD NOT be served in schools!

Chocolate Milk SHOULD be served in schools

So after seeing their evidence - what would you say? Do you think chocolate milk should be served in schools?

All About the Wright Brothers

While learning about the Southeast region, one of the students in our classroom did an independent research project. Here is a google slide show displaying the information learned.

 Hope you enjoy!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YRW2J9yL2S0jHQ0l2NmNH8VR_l5J6mkvWxgIXAgAnvs/edit?usp=sharing

Website Recommendations

           Website Recommendations 

In our class we use different websites here is a list of some websites we use in school and some websites we like to use to play online!

Website#1.  One of our school websites is Think Cerca.

On Think Cerca we do quizzes on different types of reading passages.This is a good website to use for your reading.

 Think Cerca

Website#2. Another website that we use is Think Through Math.This helps you with your math skills.My favorite part is designing your avatar. You can also donate some of your points to charity. This is good for you to learn better math. 

www.thinkthroughmath.com                                            

Website #3 Is a website that helps you with your vocabulary, Worldly Wise.

This helps you to study words that you don’t know the meaning of.Also it helps you with your school work.

http://www.wordlywise3000.com/games/book03.cfm

These are the websites we use at school.

Website#4 One of our my favorite websites that you can use online to have fun is a website called Fantage.It’s a virtual world where you can have fun.There are places you can go to design your fantagian villager.

http://www.fantage.com

We hope these websites entertain you.                                      

                                   Edgar

         Question to our blog visitors:

    Are there any websites you like to use?

Field Day

At the end of the year, our school does a thing called Field Day to celebrate our wonderful year. At  Field Day, we do a bunch of fun games like relay races and stuff like that. A few games that I really  like are: tug o war, egg and spoon races, and the obstacles. Someone would call a class out into the middle and that class would start playing with a parachute. That class would do stuff like popcorn or make a clubhouse or capture  the air and sit on it. When the whistle blows, each class would rotate to a different station. There is always somebody sitting by the school and playing music. After Field Day, everybody would go over by the school and go to the table with all of the snacks on it and take: a go go squeeze, skinny pop, and a bottle of water.

Written by: Maddie

Question to our blog visitors:

Do you have something like Field Day at your school? If so, is it like ours?

Writer of the Week

WRITER OF THE WEEK

In our class we have writer of the week.During writer of the week classmates bring in three stories they made themselves.Then they read them too the class.Then they get a sticker and certificate.They bring stories from the past and the present.They could bring in their old young authors.Those are steps people do for writer of the week.

By: Finn and Cole

To our blog visitors: 

Do you have anything like "Writer of the Week" at your school?

A picture of our board is yet to come!

iPads

208’s new iPads!

We have new iPads! Our new iPads help us a lot with math. On the iPad we have math games and a bunch of other math resources. When we did not have the iPads we always had to go and get laptops. On the iPads we can do stuff faster than we did on the computers. Our iPads do not just help us with math they help us with reading too.

Do you have iPads or computers in your class? If so how do you use them?

By:Danny and Brian