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!

Predictions About Marty McGuire

We are collaborating with another first grade class in New York as we read Marty McGuire for the Global Read Aloud! Here are the students' predictions before they started reading the book.

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The Global Read Aloud - Marty McGuire

Today is the start of the Global Read Aloud! Our class is going to be reading the chapter book, Marty McGuire with many first, second, and third grade classes all over the world!  You can see who is participating in the map below:

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Our class is partnered with another first grade class in New York! We are going to be collaborating with them as we read the book together! We are so excited!