What do you wish for 2010? What do you want to happen in your life? 

In this week story we learned about animals that live in the city too.  We read about racoons living in Central Park in New York City.  We read about finding butterflies in our gardens.  We also read about how deer sometimes get really close to the cities.  Read what room 35 sudents learned about this week. They chose one of these "city critters" and wrote about it's habitat in the city, how it looks,  and what it eats. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy our writing.

We read Stella Luna (you can find it online also at  http://storyonline.net )

We used the focus questions from Harding Elementary:

•  What is wildlife?


•  What are some kinds of wildlife?


•  What do they eat?


•  Where do they live?

 and after a classroom discussion, used the responses to build a bulletin board.

As we come to the end of the schoo year, we spent a whole week celebrating Liteacy in our school. In room 35 we chose a picture book to do tecnology projects. I chose to read Havesting Hope - the life story of Cesar Chavez.  With out book we produced a video read aloud, we wote a summary in our blogs, and also we also retold our stories using Voice Thread.  The really cool thing was that students themselves in charge of producing the projects themselves. I hope you enjoy our projects. Share with us, how does your school celebrate Liteacy..

Have a listen as we have a conversation with our special guest Judge Guitierrez as part of our celebration of career day at our school. We discussed preparation in becoming a judge and skills that will prepare us for any career like reading, writing, communicating and especially listening. We also talked about the challenges, rewards of being a judge. Finally, we talked about the changes in the profession of being a judge and how we can become lifelong learners.