web cam author visit- Sheefa

Today we saw the author Melissa Stewart! Not only did we see her, but we saw her virtually! It was very exciting and also a very interesting activity to do. First , we had to come up with questions to ask her. Everybody had their thinking caps on and started to jot down a few questions. Then when we were done, we read our questions aloud. All of them were pretty good. Then the day of the author visit finally came! We were so excited to meet her. Then , all of a sudden, the web cam went on. We could see her! After a short introduction, we started asking a few questions. I was very fascinated by the answers we were getting. She also talked about a new book that she wrote but it wasn't coming out until 2013! It was a book called,'' No Monkeys, No Chocolate!'' It was about how monkeys who live in the rain forest eat the pulp of the cocoa beans. So if they didn't, there would be no chocolate! Anyways, it was a very nice activity we worked on. - Sheefa

auther talk

Our auther viset with melissa stewart was a blast. She thought all of our quastens were grate.She gave us a lot of atvise.She rote our readers theater script. She talked to us about how she writes a reader's theater script with her nonfiction books. e used skype to talk with her in Massachusetts. We got to hear about up coming books.One of her books won`t come out until 2013.


alex

Melissa Stewart Experience

Today, we had a special experience! We talked to Melissa Stewart by video chatting. I thought it was very interesting because we were all in a different state and we were all still talking to each other. I also had a special feeling because we are the one of the first few people to do this with an author. In one of our questions that we asked her I learned something new about the rain rain forests . In one of her books she's working on No Monkeys ! No Chocolate! I learned that some monkeys in the rain forests break open cocoa pods and the eat the pulp from the pod and then they knock the cocoa seeds out onto the forest floor,so they actully help the cocoa trees to keep growing. So, if we didn't have these monkeys we wouldn't have any chocolate!!! This is what i thought about our experience with Melissa Stewart!!!
-Christa

Our 2nd Podcast!

This is the podcast of the other Reader's Theater our class did, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka.

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Our first PODCAST!

Yesterday we finished up our first Reader's Theater unit by recording a podcast. Here is the podcast of our class doing a Reader's Theater of The Three Little Pigs retold by James Marshall.

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How has Reader's Theater changed the way I feel about the reading?

Reader's Theater has changed the way that I feel about reading. It has....
taught me that reading can be fun if...you use fluency. It is a lot
of FUN!!!!!
Now the way I feel about reading is that it is very fun. Some books can be really interesting!!! It is a good way to build up your fluency and help you to want to read infront of an audience. That's all for now.
CHRISTA

how has readers theater canged the way you think about reading

Readers theater makes me think a little more about expresion. It makes me like reading more one because I get to read with my friends , and two because when I read silently I think about voices. It makes reading different because it is not as boring anymore.
- Ryan