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The Green Team is proudly participating in the 2016 Global Read Aloud. If you don't know about it, please do yourself a favor and embrace this experience in your classroom! It's pretty simple..."One Book to Connect the World." Students of like grade levels from all over the world read the same book and connect as they please through social media, blogs, and Skype! We are reading The BFG by Roald Dahl...an absolute classic and loved by all! This week's task was to read the first 4 chapters and connect as you can with others who are reading the same book. I'm lucky enough to have been "set up" with an amazing teacher in Massachusetts. We've had our classes connecting for over a year now and I.Love.It. More importantly, the kids love it! So, today my class was in charge of our Skype! We shared our thoughts about character traits for our poor little main character, Sophie. My students also used their iPads to create images of what the BFG might look like based on the descriptions in the text, so we shared those, too. In the last chapter we read this week, we finally got to hear the voice of the giant. The chapter ends with these last, spine-tickling words: Ha! What has us got here? My students took turns reciting this line the way they think the giant would sound. It was so fun! The students not only practiced their public speaking skills for an authentic audience, but they were The Leaders. The Experts. They were In Charge. These are skills that are difficult to teach, but when there's a purpose and a passion, the transition is easy! I grow more and more proud of these third graders every day!
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