Literacy Roundup!

~We are really grooving into The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (We are almost halfway!).  Mrs Janson; reading class is now reading Milkweed, let's hope they are loving it like we did! John Boyne really has a style of writing that we are not used to.  He likes to sue a lot of repetition: "out of bounds at al times, with no exceptions", "if I am being honest with myself, which I always like to be", "the hopeless case".  Mr Boyne also likes to write as if he was just sitting back and telling a story...so there is not a lot of interruption and stopping.... we call them run-ons!  The author is Irish, and there are a few words that sound the same but have a small difference in spelling: centre, colour, favourite, towne, etc.  We are enjoying the very typical relationship of an older sister and younger brother who rarely see eye to eye!

~In writing we are really focused on using elaboration to enhance our evidence!  We actual;ly had 8 Gibbons Apes score a 9 on last weeks "opinion" assessment!  Way to go!