ANIMAL STORIES

Señor Geffen read a story today called Mono y yo by Emily gravett.  A fun story containing lots of animals.

Ms. Lane continued working with the class on their tiles.  They had been placed in the kiln to dry.
Q:What  is different?
FANG: "It's white."
LUCA:"It's solid." (not soft clay)
LUCA:"What would happen if you drilled in it?"
Ms. Lane explained it would probably crack, even though it is solid it is fragile. She also showed everyone the different colored glazes the class could choose to decorate their tile.

Ella decided to play polar bears and a few friends started to show interest.

Leonard the butterfly fox (half butterfly half fox) decided to come and visit but polar bear was asleep.

Then Valentina and Evy decided they wanted to be part of the polar bear family and joined Ella.

Butterfly fox fell asleep.

Meanwhile, Beatrix and Grace were busy baking.

They also decided to join Ella as polar bears, and bring their baking with them as everyone was hungry.

Valentina polar bear visited Leonard the butterfly fox.

They all decided to go fishing as they were all hungry fortunately they had fishing poles and there were lots of fish in the ocean.

THE END 

During story time we read 'M is for Melanin, A celebration of the black child by Tiffany Rose.

We didn't get to discuss the book as we had a Lockdown drill.  We have practiced this a few times but we had a few students voice concerns around someone getting into the school so we spent quite some time addressing their concerns.

The other class had a birthday celebration and the weather was too cold to go out so we went for a tour of the middle school and visited the Library.  On the way we met a group of 8th grade students asking people to fill in post-it notes for Parkland school.  I told them  that something had happened at the school and that the students were filling in post it notes to let them know they cared about them.  Some of our students drew pictures and wrote from PK.

QUESTIONS
Can you remember one animal from Señor Geffen's book?
What color did you paint your tile?
What was your favorite part of the tour?