For the next couple of weeks the Trillium, Huckleberry, and Clarkia classes will be discovering that their brain actually does a lot of work while reading. Using the "Reading Brain Hat" lessons taken from the www.thebookfairygoddess.blogspot.com, we will place the areas we think the brain may be working when we read fiction stories. What part of the brain "lights up" when we predict or find characters in the story? How does our brain work to find the events in the story and put them in the right sequence? Does our brain work harder to find the problem and solution of the story? We will be using the book, "A Walk in the Rain with a Brain," to discover that all brains have different strengths and how each one is unique and can be strengthen if you try, try, try.
The Alder classes will be starting some research papers in their homeroom classes and so we continue to learn about MLA format and how to cite our sources. This week we learned how magazines are set up differently then books and where to find the important information for citations. We will discover how to cite DVD's and media sources next week. It has been a great start to our first week back!
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