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Sister Sara's Life and Poetry
Oct. 7, 2008
Five in a Row - The Giraffe that Walked to Paris
| This week for Five in a Row we are reading The Giraffe that Walked to Paris. My oldest child has not shown much interest in the past in giraffes. It's probably because he hasn't been to a zoo since he was one. It was one of those drive through zoos where you drive 5 miles an hour. He was in the front seat so we could show him the animals. We were disappointed because he played with the knobs on the radio and didn't seem interested in the animals at all. Now he's more interested in outer space, science in general, ants and frogs and things like that so I wasn't sure how he would respond to this. He responded more positively than I expected. Today we will work with some of the vocabulary from the story. Then we will have repetition of learning the new words for three more days. Kristian really enjoys how we take note cards with the definition of different words and he gets to pull out the right note card when the word comes up in the story. I write out the word and definition and find a picture to glue onto the note card that has to do with the word. That visual connection plus the definition and meaning in the story really makes the words click in my student's brain. |
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Oct. 7, 2008 - ~ Hey There! ~
~Amanda~