Hey Everyone!
Are you reading a good book this winter break? If so, please share any summaries, comments, questions, or connections you have with your book. I will respond back as soon as I can and others can comment on your post(s) too. I will give extra credit to anyone who posts a comment and thoughtfully responds to at least 3 others students' posts. HAPPY READING!
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About Me
- Ms. Reese
- Welcome to the 2013-2014 school year! I am so happy and grateful to be a part of the Buffalo Trail community and especially the wonderful 5th grade team. This is my 2nd year at BTE and my 12th year of teaching. I have taught 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades in Kentucky and Colorado. Before moving to Denver three years ago, I lived in Northern Kentucky near Cincinnati, Ohio. I earned a BS from the University of Kentucky and my MAT from the University of Louisville. In 2007, I became a National Board Certified Teacher with an emphasis in Early/Middle Childhood Reading and Language Arts. In my free time, I love to read, ride my bike, try new restaurants, and go to concerts/sports events. I love cheering my teams on during basketball season, hiking, and skiing. I am loving Colorful Colorado and look forward to our new adventures together!
Hey Ms. Reese!
ReplyDeleteThis is Ritika. How is your winter break? I have created a book log on paper and I will turn it in the Tuesday that we come back. However, I will post a summary and connection to a book I have finished over break. Be looking for some other comments from me on this!
Thanks,
Ritika
Hi Ms. Reese I will make a book log and publish in to you on Tuesday!!!! Can't wait 4 you 2 read it!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMs.Reese can we make our book log like our weekly reader?
ReplyDeleteMs. Reese can I do more than 1` book log this winter break?
ReplyDeleteDear Ms. Reese,
ReplyDeleteI am reading a book called "Breathe" by Cliff Mcnish. It is a very good book because it is a ghost story. So far in the book, the most exciting part is when the ghost mother came and scared Jack and gave him an asthma attack. Jack is 10 years old and lives with his other mother, Sarah. The ghost mother isn't really Jack's mother. Before he saw her, he looked out the window and saw the ghost mother's daughter coughing up blood and dying. Jack still doesn't know how the ghost mother died yet. I predict the ghost mother committed suicide because of her daughter dying. That's all I can say for now! I don't want to ruin the story for other readers!
Enjoy your holiday
Jeffrey
I can connect to Jeffrey's summary about "Breathe" by Cliff Mcnish with a text to text connection to "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons is about a girl named Sal who is trying to find her dead mother with hopes to bring her back home before Sal's mother's birthday. Sal wants to know how her mother had died.This is similar to the summary about "Breathe" because Jake is trying to find out how his mother died too!
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Ritika
Over winter break, I am reading a book called "A Mango Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass.
ReplyDeleteShort Summary From What I have Read So Far:
Back in third grade, Mia Winchell thought her life was perfect. She could see colors out of words and shapes out of sounds and she thought everyone could see this way too. But in third grade, when she figured out that no one saw how she saw, Mia realized that her life was all mixed up. Now Mia Winchell is starting eight grade and still no one has told her what this strange and awkward case is. This is also affecting Mia's grade with a "big, fat, purple F". Finally, after a while, Mia Winchell has the courage to tell her parents about what and how she is seeing. Her parents are horrified and worried. They call the physician but apparently this doctor has never seen a case like this before. Then he gives Mia Winchell and her family another number to another doctor. Still this new doctor does not seem to know what is happening to Mia. The 2nd doctor gives Mia the number to another doctor. Finally, this last doctor knows what is happening to Mia, nothing hurtful but a condition called synesthesia. This is where your 5 senses get all tangled up with eachother. Now the question is "Does Mia want to go through synesthesia the rest of her life or does she want the doctor to help Mia go around synesthesia?"
A connection to this book:
I can connect this book with another book called "My Brother Made Me Do It". This book is about a girl who has a painful reaction in her bones whenever she does something active. She realizes that she has junior arthritis. She will have live through it. This relates to "A Mango Shaped Space" because Mia has to live through her situation of synesthesia too.
I can relate to this book Ritika read from a book called "Help I am Trapped in my sister's body. How? That's because in the book a boy named Jake wants to get trapped in her sister's body! However in order to switch bodies they have to go to the science lab. Why does he want to switch bodies with his sister Jessica? Well, he just doesn't want to go to the doctor's but his sister has done it before. How does this relate to Ritika's book? This book "Help i'm trapped in my sister's body" because Jake too has to go to the doctor's. Although it's not easy being trapped in your sister's body. He has to talk with girls that he likes, go to the mall and go shopping, ext. Mia too sees different things colorful. Jake in his sister's body has to go to the mall which is a lot colorful. Talking to his sister's friends with the most colorful dresses ever. On the second hand, at least he does not have to go to the doctors unlike his sister Jessica. That is a connection I made with Ritika's book " A Mango Shaped Space." BTW I have read a book by Wendy Mass named "The Kind of Friends we used to be!"
ReplyDeleteFinishing the book "School of Fear" here is a short summary of the book!
ReplyDeleteEveryone is afraid of something. Madeline is scared of insects ESPECIALLY spiders! Theodore is worried of dying! Lulu is frightened of confined spaces! Last but not least, Garrison is horrified of deep water! However, in order to not be afraid those phobias those 4 children HAVE to attend a school in Massachusetts named the School of Fear! It is the most terrifying school in America. With a bald teacher that is a lady and a blind man that cooks the children food. HORRIFYING!!!!! However this year instead of learning how to forgot and not be scared of your fears the teacher Mrs. Wellington pretends a fake death. The blind man Schimidy , trusts the gang to rescue his beloved Mrs. Wellington's dog Marconi. From who? You must be wondering it is from a man named ... Muchaser! An evil man that hates Schimidy and take his dog . Also he wants to be the new head Mistress of School of Fear! Like I said Schimidy trusts the 4 some children to rescue Mrs. Wellington's dog Mac. While the 4 children were going on the adventure they were crossing there very own fears to rescue Mac! Back at the school, Schimidy and Mrs. Wellington were watching every move the children were making!!!! SCARY!!!! When the children arrived they saw Mrs. Wellington sitting there at the dining room table! Terrified Mrs. Wellington explained to the children that all of it was fake and made sure that they weren't afraid of their fears. To end it off the children not afraid of their fears and actually enjoyed that summer at School of Fear!!!
I recommend you to read this book. Why? Well, because it is a fun and spooky book!!!
How can I connect to the book I read "School of Fear" ? I can connect to my book because I too am scared of insects,deep water, confined spaces, and dying! I would kind of enjoy going to School of Fear! WHY? That's because I am afraid of moths A LOT!!! So by going to School of Fear I would not be afraid of moths any more ! Just like Maddie she was done with all of her bug repellent and had to go through a summer with bugs EVERYWHERE!!!! At the end of the summer, she was not afraid of bugs. Well, maybe a little bit! A question I have is ... The author of
ReplyDelete"School of Fear was he afraid of what the 4 children were afraid of? If so then is he afraid of those fears anymore???
According to the summary of "School of Fear" that Dua wrote I figured that the moral of the story is to stick up for youself and other people. You should also be brave! This is how life rolls. I realized that this was the moral of the story because Madison, Theodore, Lulu, and Garrison have one bad phobia of different types and in order to get rid of these phobias, the children have to attend a school made to get rid of these things. Then the teacher of the classroom made a plan to trick the kids into going through the phobias that they experience to save their nice teacher's dog. And this worked out on them! As Dua said, Maddie was not scared of bugs anymre and that must have helped her a lot by going through life situations. So basically, the moral of this story is telling you to be brave!
ReplyDeleteI can connect to Dua's book called "Help, I am Trapped in my Sister's Body" because this book reminds me of another book by Louis Sachar. It is called "Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?" This relates to "Help, I am Trapped In my Sister's Body: because in "Is He A Girl?" someone in Mrvin's class tells Marvin that if you kiss your own elbow you turn into your oppisite gender. As weird as it was, curious Marvin Redpost decides to try it for himself. That night, Marvin turns and twists and jumps and slides just to try to kiss his elbow. Finally, somehow, Marvin has gotten his mouth to his elbow and has even kissed it! Wow! Later that morning, Marvin begins to act very strange! "[He] wishes he had pigtails like his little sister. "[Marvin] even dots his i's with little hearts!" Marvin is acting exactly like a girl! In the book that Dua had read called "Help, I am Trapped in my Sister's Body!" Jake is scared to go to the doctor's office but his sister has done it before. He wants to turn into a girl/his older sister! In both books that I am talking about the main character becomes a girl or wants to become a girl. Marvin Redpost is his little sister and Jake wants to become his older sister!
ReplyDeleteI should read that book "Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?" It seems like an interesting book to me
ReplyDeleteLove the detail dua ps this is katelyne I had a great time in Chicago I got so many cool things. Ms Reese when the class gets back to school can we write about our presents we got
ReplyDeleteI was about to go to Chicago but there was not enough seats so I am just at home! Thanks Katelyne
ReplyDeleteMs.Reese can we make a book log and then turn it in your inbox?
ReplyDeleteAlso thanks 4 the letter it made me smile! I'm sorry I dint write bak! I was busy having fun with my cousins and reading at times
ReplyDeleteMs. Reese did u receive my letter? I hope u did!!!
ReplyDeleteLike Ashley said, I will be turning in a book log into your inbox that includes the book I read of each day and a short summary plus a connection to go with it!!
ReplyDeleteTHANKS,
Ritika
wow jeffrey, just by listening to your booklog makes me want to keep reading. i love how you but so much detail into your report, i wonder what hapens nexts.i am so asking my mom to get me the same book so i can read it. katelyne
ReplyDeleteschool of fear book three is about five kids coming together and stop slyvia from exposing the fear kids secrets, in order to to that first they must get alberthany ms.welingtons step son the forgive her for dating alberthanys father.but to do that the must get help from strange men call the contrarians,contrarians are people who do the oppisite of what you ask. the leader for the contrarians has to convence alberthany to forgive ms,wellington.
ReplyDeletewill the fear team keep their secret in the shadow?
katelyne
I can relate to the summary of School of Fear: book 3 that Katelyne wrote with a text to text connection. I can relate that book to another book called "The Mysterious Benedict Society" beecause in this book, bright kids must go through a top secret mission in order to stop an evil man stealing info from children's brains. Based on the summary that Katelyne has wrote, "The Mysterious Benedict Society" relates to " School of Fear: book three" because in "School of Fear: book three" the kids also have to go through a top secret mission in order to stop Sylvia from exposing the other kid's secrets.
ReplyDeleteTHANKS,
RITIKA
I am so reading the 2nd book and the 3rd book of school of fear! Ms. Reese I will be turning in my book log in the inbox! Including the summary of School of Fear, connection, questions, and prediction! I will also be doing another book log on the other chapter book I read this Winter break called the Last Holiday Concert! It will be including the same things School of Fear's book log has!!! Can't wait to see u tomorrow!!!
ReplyDeleteHey Ms. Reese!
ReplyDeleteIt was great 1st day back! Can you tell us who got extra credit on this soon? Thanks, Ritika
WOW! WOW! WOW! Thank you to all students who took the time to read and respond to the book log blog over the break. All students who responded will be receiving extra credit. I will discuss the details with you in class this week. GREAT JOB!!
ReplyDeleteI am also extremely impressed with the students who made hard copy book logs and put them in my in box this morning. I will be reading them this week and making comments. I have the BEST CLASS...I'm so proud of you all!! :)
Thanh u so much! And i have THE BEST TEACHER( you Ms. Reese!)BTW the 1 st day of school was great. Just like Ritika said!
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