Remarkable Reading
By: Charlie and Emma
We just finished reading two breath-taking stories! The first story was Amazing Alice. In Amazing Alice a woman named Minna, describes her 4-month journey from New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, in the form of a diary. Will Alice be the first woman to drive across the country in less than 60 days? You will have to find out yourself!
The second story we wanted to talk about is John Henry. In this story a boy named John Henry hits his growth spurt in the first 5 minutes of his life! He grows to be about 8”7’ and he’s stronger than dynamite. His hammers he got, were aluminum. His handles were made of whalebone. So he thinks he can out-hammer a machine, and he can. He hammered 1 and a half miles and the machine only hammered half a mile. Sadly, at the end, John Henry’s heart bursts, and he dies. In the end of the story somebody says, “Dying ain’t important. Everybody does that. What matters is how well you do your living”!
A while ago we finished our 3rd literature circles book! We finished biographies! The biographies were: Helen Keller, Davy Crockett, Lewis and Clark, and Sitting Bull! Now we are about to start our 4th literature circles books! But this time we are doing series, of mysteries! The series will be: Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, A to Z Mysteries, Encyclopedia Brown, and History Mysteries! There are so many interesting things in mysteries. We wonder what will happen in these?
In our classroom we have a huge white chart! On the white chart we get to recommend books we just finished reading. We write what the title is, some comments about it, and 3,2,or1 stars depending how good you think the book is. For example: the BFG, a must read, and three stars. So the title is the BFG, the comment is a must read, and they gave it three stars.
During the year we do a program called, “Read 100 books for Scholastic’’ so we figured that you understand that the idea is to read 100 books for Scholastic. After we read a book we go to a chart and mark our initials on a heart and on that heart, there’s a number and which ever number you mark that’s how many books we’ve read. Once we get to 100 books that’s how many we donate to Scholastic. The other Scholastic program is ‘‘Book Fair’’, book fair is when you go to the gymnasium and look at books, but don’t check any out. But at night, after school you can come back to get a book.
