The Thankful Book by Mrs. Diaz's Class

Working on the iPad to create a class book.

This week, our sharing topic was to tell what we are thankful for. Everyone shared that they are thankful for their parents, school, siblings, friends, houses, etc. We realized that we have lots of things to be thankful for! Then we read The Thankful Book by Todd Parr. Our class really appreciated this book because the author wrote about little things that he is thankful for. For example, Mr. Parr writes, "I am thankful for my ears because they help me hear beautiful music." We decided to make our own class book using our iPads and an app called Drawing Pad. We hope you like our first digital class book!

DEAR Day!

Today was DEAR Day! DEAR stands for Drop Everything And Read! So, we lounged around the classroom reading books for part of our day. Here are some photos of us having a great time sharing books with friends!

Our New York Connection

As part of the Global Read Aloud, our class read Marty McGuire, along with Mr. Water's first grade class in New York. In the book, Marty is reluctantly chosen to play the part of the princess in the class play, The Frog Prince. Mr. Waters had a great idea that we could make tissue paper frogs and use them to get to know more about each other. To do this, our students took pictures of themselves and their frogs in different places near our homes and then shared them with the other class.  Our class received a package a couple of weeks ago with many pictures of the New York kids and their frogs standing in places like the Statue of Liberty and Central Park! Our class decided to create a slideshow of our photos to share them. The final product is below. We hope that Mr. Water's class likes it and will leave us a comment!