Global Read Aloud 2016: Google Hangouts

What we have to say about our Google Hangouts: 
This week we did Google Hangouts. (OY)
We did the Google Hangouts with grade 2 classes. (BDL)
We did the Google Hangouts with other classes from around the world. (AA)
One class was from California, only 10 minutes away from Disneyland and the other was from Cozad, Nebraska. (OY, AO, JL)
Cozad is 1931 km from us and 17 hours drive away from us. (KM)
In Cozad there are 4000 people. (AO)
In Cozad, there was just one elementary school and one high school. (JL, NG, AA)
We asked so many questions while we were doing the Google Hangouts. (OY)
We did the Google Hangouts because we want to talk to other grade 2's because they've read the same books as us by Lauren Castillo.

We want to know more about other people from around the world and we want to know what they think about the books. (KM, AO, AA)

The Troublemaker: Double Bubble Character Comparison Chart #GRALauren #GRA2016

Today we read the book "The Troublemaker" by Lauren Castillo.
After reading, we compared the characters of the little boy and the sneaky raccoon.

Check out our Double Bubble Comparison Chart

Post It Smackdown!

In Writer's Workshop, we have been learning how to write sentences with BAM! We have been learning how to make a sentence complete and descriptive. We used post- it notes to collaboratively brainstorm all of the WHAT words (adjectives) and WHERE words (adverbs) we can think of to describe our pictures. We then organized them into categories that make sense to us for us to then write our descriptive sentences independently.