Chapter 1 is Underway!

To recap our first weeks of school:

We had a "Reading Frenzy" on the first day of school. Everyone left class with a book to read!
I learned your names.... Was I the first teacher to remember your name or the last?
We agreed on class expectations.
We made beautiful self-portraits.
We found out what reading range you should stick to, so you will grow as a reader.
We learned about the different genres of literature.
We made Ch. 1 packets! Extra credit for dancing!!
I introduced our first chapter and we took Cornell notes about plot.

Stay tuned for a read-aloud like you've NEVER experienced before... Starring Ms. Gibson!

Chapter 1 packet party pics:

What is the best book you've ever read?

While finishing up our self-portraits last week, some of the faster finishers shared what they like about their favorite books:

Can you guess who these students may be??

Facts About Kids and Reading

I'm working on creating a brochure for Back to School Night next week. In researching statistics about reading 1,000,000 words a year, I discovered an excellent PDF from Scholastic, which you can see in its entirety here: Scholastic Facts About Reading

I find this sort of information RIVETING, of course, so I think you will too :)

In fact, I liked it so much, I made a Wordle out of it:

Greetings, Readers!

Today my website went "live" and is now connected to the Harvest Middle School website. WHOOT! I'm official!
To my students: please feel free to click around and check out all that this new site has to offer. I may decide to open up comments. If so, I will welcome your thoughts and questions.

Homework tonight is to fill out your Trimester 1 Reading Log for the books you've already read so far this school year. It's fun to keep track of what you've read and how you've grown as a reader.

Remember, the goal is to read 1 MILLION words this year. We are shooting for reading 40 books (at least!). I know you can do it!