Charlotte's Web

This week, our class finished our latest read-aloud, Charlotte's Web.  It was the longest book we have read together, at 184 pages!  It took us about a month, reading 1- 2 chapters a day!  The children really enjoyed this story, and it continued our introduction of chapter books with few pictures.   With this book, we also practiced making predictions.  After each event, we would discuss why we think something may have happened, and what we think might happen next.

I think that my favorite part has been hearing the children use some of the new vocabulary words they learned from the book.  This week alone, I heard Kyndal ask if we should be "humble" (we defined this as not showing off), and Keisa greeted me the other morning with a great big smile and "salutations" (Charlotte's favorite way to say hello)!  Our class is terrific, terrific, terrific (as the goose would say)!

                                        

We are all excited and ready to move on to our last big read-aloud of the year, Mr. Popper's Penguins, just in time for the movie to come out later this month!