Global Read Aloud-The One and Only Ivan
We are excited to participate in this year's Global Read Aloud. We are going to read THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN by Katherine Applegate. Today, we previewed the book by watching the official book trailer,...
View ArticleThe One and Only Ivan-Our Reading Notebooks
During Read Aloud time, we have our notebooks open. Several times during our reading, Mrs. Sibberson stops to give us time to jot our thinking. When we were looking at other people's thinking about the...
View ArticleThe One and Only Ivan: Conversations Around Big Questions
We are almost finished with the book The One and Only Ivan. As we get to the end, we are collecting questions that we think are big enough, that we will still be thinking about them once the book is...
View ArticleScience Challenges
We have been working on science experiments for the past few weeks. They are fun and challenging. For example, we did a Gobstopper experiment. Mrs. Sibberson got this idea from reading Mr. Keefer's...
View ArticleNonfiction Websites
This year in school we've been looking at some nonfiction websites. Our class likes reading online. You can find the websites at our class website. We hope you enjoy the websites we show you...
View ArticleBook Review: Infinity Ring
This is the first in a series of Book Reviews that you will find on our blog! You will know the reviews in this series when you see the "Book Reviews" logo. I think Infinity Ring #1: A Mutiny in...
View ArticleRuth Ayres: A Google Hangout Visit
We had a Google Hangout Visit with Ruth Ayres. She is a writer from Two Writing Teachers and she talked to us about Slice of Life writing. She is so nice because she's a busy writer but she had time...
View ArticleReading Nonfiction Books
Our class pretty much reads nonfiction books every day. We often start our day with nonfiction. We just finished a read aloud book called Extreme Scientists. The part our class read was about...
View ArticleThe Green Screen
Flickr Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrjerz/3605477488/ This year our class did a Green Screen project about math problems. We had to read the problem and then make a background that matched the...
View ArticleBook Review: The Lightning Thief
Today I'm reviewing The Lightning Thief. The Lightning Thief is the first book in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Rick Riordan is also the author of the Heroes of Olympus series...
View ArticleThe Unforgettable Season
If you like baseball you will like this book. This book is nonfiction. The book is called The Unforgettable Season by Phil Bildner. But the subtitle is "The Story of Joe Dimaggio,Ted Williams and the...
View ArticleCreating a Logo for a Blog Series
There are some students in our class who do book reviews and interviews for writing time. They also created their own logos. The reason they wanted to create logos was because of "It's Monday! What...
View ArticleBook Review: The Red Pyrmid
The Red Pyramid is the first book in the Kane Chronicles series. The author is Rick Riordan. Rick Riordan is also the author of the Heroes of Olympus series and the New York Times #1 best-selling...
View ArticleBook Review: Lost and Found
I think Lost and Found by Andrew Clements is a 5 star book.After I pick up the book I can’t put the book back down.Two twin brothers are moving so they have to go to a new school. Then they have a...
View ArticleTime to Interview Barbara O'Connor
Welcome to our first interview on TTI. Today we will be interviewing Barbara O'Connor. She is the author of How to Steal a Dog.
View ArticleTime to Interview Katherine Applegate
Welcome to our second TTI interview. Today, we will be interviewing Newbery winning author, Katherine Applegate. She is the author of The One and Only Ivan.(If you like this interview, check out our...
View ArticleTeacher Interview: Mrs. Guehl
Welcome to TI teacher Interview. Today I interviewed a teacher named Ms. Guehl. This is one out of many interviews. When I thought of TTI, I wanted to show people what teachers do and get. My goal is...
View ArticleKingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark
Disney After Dark is the first book in The Kingdom Keepers series by Ridley Pearson. This is a book that is good for ages ten and up to enjoy. It is about 300 pages long. There are 5 books in the...
View ArticleTime to Interview Kate Messner
Welcome to our third TTI interview. We interviewed Kate Messner, author of Capture the Flag and Hide and Seek. We are trying different formats for our interviews. We wrote questions on Pages, then...
View ArticleTime to Interview Shane Evans
Shane Evans came to Indian Run Elementary School in March. Shane Evans was thoughtful enough to take a couple of minutes to let us interview him----LIVE! Our whole group was very excited about it...
View ArticleBook Review: How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
Barbra O’ Connor made up this awesome book called How To Steal A Dog. Before I get to the story I have a question. Have you ever thought where your classmates live? Have you ever thought...
View ArticleBook Review: H.I.V.E.
H.I.V.E is a book about a boy named Otto Malpense. He lives in an orphanage. He saved the orphanage by “convincing” the Prime Minister to not close it down. By doing that somehow a lady...
View ArticleTime to Interview N.D. Wilson
Today we are interviewing the author of 100 Cupboards, N.D. Wilson. We read his book as a class read aloud and we all loved it. The book is a fantasy about a boy who found magical cupboards. Each...
View ArticlePlatypus Police Squad Blog Tour--Interview With Jarrett Krosoczka
This post has been cross-posted at A YEAR OF READING as part of the PLATYPUS POLICE SQUAD Blog Tour, Ms. Hahn put the post together, and included the interview from the TTI team.We are thrilled to...
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