RIF

Top RIF Readers for March

Finding Common Themes in Cinderella stories from Around the World

Read Across America - Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss

On March 6 we celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday

We brought in some of our favorite books to read.

We loved having parents and volunteers com in and read to us!

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Always in Trouble

Do you have a library card?

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Old MacDonald had a Dragon

Dragons Love Tacos

Seuss-isms

Yertle the Turtle

Gertrude McFuzz

If I Ran the Zoo

Some of the students even read aloud passages from Dr. Seuss stories!

Asking Questions

We've been focusing on asking questions in small group reading.
Some questions have answers that are "right there".
Others require you to "think and search"
Yet others are more "on your own"

Will it Float?

BOOKS! We Love Reading!

Making a timeline of events using post-its

inventing our own carnivorous plants

cars of the future

cars of the future

a travel brochure to Hershey Pennsylvania

proudly displaying some of our work

more of our favorite projects on display

anchor chart reminding us of small group reading time expectations.

It's here!  We pre-ordered the next book in the series!

Connecting to current events - a dangerous lava flow in Hawaii

reading about volcanos

making connections to current events

finding facts about volcano eruptions

Reading for fun!

We earned books as a prizes.  Good behavior = new books!

Venn Diagrams - comparing and contrasting with a partner 

Writing in Chinese

After reading Year of the Panda - we tried writing in Chinese like LuYi

After reading "Trouble on the Farm" we made thank-a-farmer posters.

New books for our library from the Scholastic Book Fair! We love G. Stilton!  Lots of new ones to check out!

December top RIF readers

January top RIF readers

What's the theme of the book?
This is a question we always ask when reading.

Looking for a historical fiction check out the blue stickers!
All the books in our library are color coded by genre

Over 800 books to check out in Miss Liefer's classroom!
They are all organized by author's last name.
Which one will be your next book?