Pete the Cat

I LOVE Pete the Cat...and so do my students!

They will eat up any and all books about him and we'll be singing his happy songs all day long! Since doing shared readings this year, I focus on 1 particular book a week and we really delve into it. The students love it and really are able to read with fluency and expression, even understanding the deeper elements of plot, characters, setting, and the author's message. We read "Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons," awhile back and this was the writing activity and craft that we celebrated with on that Friday. The kids wrote a summary of the book using a flow map and transition words. I think it came out pretty Pete-tastic! :)

You can also get a glimpse of my "Power Word" Wall. We use them to transition off the carpet to our desks. When I say the "power word" they can get up and go back to their "scholar spots" aka...desks. The words I pick are based on whatever unit of study  we are doing in a particular subject area. The week I took this picture it was on "civil rights and Martin Luther King Jr."