READING

Today students are bringing home a bottle and directions to use for the following assignment.

Character Bottle Book Report

            1.  Choose a book that you did a book report on in

                  the third quarter.

2.  Decorate the bottle to look like the main

         character in your book.  Use cloth,

         paper, felt, whatever you’d like. 

         3.  Think about the character traits of your main

                  character and find examples of those traits. 

                  You might want to write them down to help

                  you when you present.

4. Practice telling about the book.  Use the form I

                  am using to grade you to

                  make sure you cover everything.

We will be presenting these in class on Wednesday, April 10^th.  Any late presentations will be given ½ points.  

FUN NIGHT BASKET

Fun Night is coming up on April 27th.  Again each grade level will be putting together baskets to raffle.  The fourth grade theme is Coffee and Chocolate.  (YUM!)  Please have your donations sent to school by Monday, April 22nd.  At this point we have only received two items.

Author Visit

We were fortunate to have author Heather Gudenkauf visit our classroom. She writes chapter books for adults.

Heather talked to us about  writing a chapter book.  We got to look at one of her books in many languages and compare the cover choices.  She also had quizzes and prizes of books for us.  The students had great questions prepared that Heather answered for them.

Heather is Myah Lugar's aunt!

We learned that an author needs to have patience because it takes a long time to not only write the book, but to edit it and get it published too!