The kids got a lot of practice typing this week, as we spent a whole lot of time on the Chromebooks. We did our character trait project in reading. The students typed up essays based on a character in a fiction book of their choice. They then created word clouds using the website www.wordclouds.com. They turned out really neat and I'm looking forward to hanging them up in the hallway. I had my homeroom in the afternoons this week, and we typed up our personal narratives. Our focus for this writing was strong beginnings for stories and showing rather than telling what's happening in the story. In comparison to their summer writings, the students have shown great improvement in both areas!

Below are a few pictures from the Harvest Festival that the school held on Thursday. There are also some pictures of my homeroom learning from some fifth graders. Miss Bougas, the 5th grade teacher, is a good friend of mine and invited us in to her classroom so that her students could present some writing strategies to us. They did a great job!

Our Bucket Fillers this week were Tommy and Shane. Tommy is such a nice kid. I have been looking forward to being his teacher for years now, since I was his older brother Daniel's teacher for two years. Tommy is always smiling and kind to his classmates; it must run in the family! Shane worked really hard on his personal narrative this week. He really tried to incorporate more details into his writing and took all my feedback seriously. Nice job boys!