Charlotte's Web & The Human Body

We have finally begun "the long awaited week!" The students have been anxiously waiting, and this week has been like a breath of fresh air!!

Charlotte's Web will take the next three weeks of school and consume most of our morning class time. We'll work on a variety of higher level thinking strategies and complete a few projects. I rewrote the entire unit while Mr. Brownlee was full-time teaching, and I can't remember the last time I was this excited to teach a unit! Today we worked on the strategy of visualizing, or making a mental image while you read. While I read aloud the students drew their mental images, and they turned out great! I'll try to remember to take a few pictures to post tomorrow. I'm getting used to writing for our blog, and now I need to get better at taking photos regularly!!!

On Monday we began our study of the human body by observing how our bodies move while jumping rope. I challenged the students to observe CAREFULLY to determine what parts of their body was moving. We couldn't identify the leg or the arm because there were parts of each of those that didn't move. Our first challenge this week will be to figure out how many bones there are in the human skeleton...if you already know, please don't spill the beans!!!!!