After Spring Break, I began reading the book The Tale of Despereaux out loud to the students during snack time. It's a wonderful story of mice, rats, royalty, good and evil. It has many twists and turns and qualities of a old-fashioned fairy tale! Along the way, we have discussed so many of the language arts skills we've learned this year: characters, setting, inferences, vocabulary, just to name a few. The students (and myself!) have really enjoyed reading this adventure!
Today, we made and ate soup! Why? Because many of the story's events are connected to soup. Here's the graphic organizer we made during our class discussion:
After reading our chapters for today, we tasted soup just like the characters in the castle in which Despereaux the mouse lives. The students then had to write a paragraph predicting the end of the book.
They did a great job and had many interesting ideas as to what the conclusion to this story could be! Stay tuned! We will be finishing this book soon and after we take AR tests on it, we will have a "Movie Morning" in which we get to watch the cartoon version of this story. :)
(Parents, if you'd like to read a really good book about the advantages of reading aloud to children of any age, check out the book, The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. I highly recommend it.)
Have a great evening! See you tomorrow, Third Grade Thinkers!
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