The Reading Workshop

Check out some shots from today!

Grades for the fifth and sixth grade students are available at all times on Engrade. Grades are stored online and can be accessed by any ...

Today is the best day of the year for a lot of students. They have fun with their grandparents/grandfriends. They get to spend time with t...

Not to say that my students started out slow this morning, but this is a picture of one of the boys. This called for desperate measures. ...

Today is a beautiful, sunny, Monday. Usually it seems like we are slow to get back at it, but everyone seemed wide awake. Progress on lett...

How would you describe yourself as a reader? That is the challenge facing students with the next project. Students are writing a letter in...

Students finished their letters today on the topic, "Reasons Why I Liked the Book." The following is a letter by Dillon Y. that i...

This is our topic for this week. We are singing a version of the New Radicals song You Get What You Give . Here is the chorus: You've ...

Great job to all Laurelville Elementary students for their hard work, especially considering the heat. Yesterday the top floor was above 90...

We sing daily in reading class. The lyrics are shown on the wall with a DLP projector. Students read the words as they sing. This helps s...

Today we focused on the letter project. The topic of the day was adding details that support your thoughts, ideas, and opinions. We discus...

As we finish up the first week, I am pleased about such a great first week of school. Many of the procedures we will use throughout the yea...

Today we focused on writing a friendly letter and the proper format. We discussed setting the tone in the opening, putting facts and detail...

The first book to be read aloud this year is a Time Warp Trio book, The Not So Jolly Roger , written by Jon Scieszka . This is the tale of ...

Today we had a special visitor in our class. Jennifer Hardwick, an LE grad, and sixth grade student from a few years ago came in and talked...

The 2007/08 school year is officially under way. Today was a great start with students involved and participating. We began language arts t...

Welcome back to school and welcome to sixth grade. Hopefully this will be the best year ever for students coming in to sixth grade language...