Visiting author and Poem in my pocket

This week is "Book Week". We have David M. Schwartz a author visiting our school. He has written several books with the theme of numbers.

"How much is a Million?", "If you hopped like a frog" and "Millions to Measure" to name a few.

He spoke to the Grade about how animals are fascinating to study as they also relate to mathematics. The patterns on their bodies as well has their body parts.

Today was "Poem in your pocket" where each child had a poem and had to read it to someone. Our class choose to read to our G1 buddy class, Ms Kelly. It was a great way for the buddies to share their poems.

We have also had mystery readers reading to different classes through out the week. I wonder who will come and read to us.....

 

Book Week Writers Workshop

For book week the grade have two writers workshops and one illustration workshop with our visiting author / artist Ellen Lou.


She talked to the grade about how she gets her ideas to for her books - her cat.

She loves cats so uses her cat as her inspiration.

Ellen told the students she plans her ideas using a storyboard and gets a picture about what will happen in her story.

The grade will have there second session with Ellen on Thursday and Friday will look at illustrating their stories.