Today, April 15, 2010, is Community Reading Day.  We had guest readers come to each classroom to read a book and talk a bit about reading and their jobs.  Our Community Readers were:

KINDERGARTEN
Harper – Sandra Warner (retired Asa kindergarten teacher)
Rutherford – Dennis Bean (Orono firefighter and local Asa celebrity!!!)

FIRST
Metcalf – Cathy Conlow (Orono Town Manager)
Cavazos – Laurie Carpenter (Director of Orono Library)

SECOND
White – Buddy Webb (Orono Fire Chief)
Oldenburgh – Barry Burgason (wildlife biologist)
Dreher – Jan Kristo (Literacy Specialist and faculty at UM College of Ed.)

THIRD
Dill –  Leo Kenney (school board member and local business owner)
Soderberg – Chris Watson (Orono’s DARE officer)
Thurston – Officer LaJoie (Orono PD)

FOURTH
Allen – Andy Whitehouse (Orono Police Officer)
Kreutz – Kenny Ferguson (Forester)
Brooker – Ronald Noyes (Retired postman, boy scout leader and active community member)

FIFTH
Morcom – Tim Whitehead (UM Hockey Coach)
Whitney – Bob Lucy (Middle School Principal )
Molloy – Linda Ilse (Wildlife Ecologist Faculty at UM)

Fire Chief Webb says Hi!

Fire Chief Buddy Webb

Chatting With Room 8

Reading the blurb on the book jacket

Reading "Can't Catch Me"

Check out the cool illustrations!

Great Listeners!

More Great Listeners

What a Great Book! Remember, Mom ALWAYS knows best.

Our MAT, Ms. Jessica Dunton, has been teaching us about Japan.  We have been talking with a boy our age who lives there.

Click here to see a video about what we learned!

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Our UMAINE student teachers taught us some things about non-fiction.  We reviewed features like the Table of Contents and the Index.  We also learned about the importance of captions on illustrations and words in bold print.

A former student of Room 8 came to visit.  He shared his book report on Emily Dickinson with us.  MW told us that Emily was “kind of a not very happy person”  and that she wrote a lot of poems about nature.  He also told us that she lived in Amherst, Massachusetts which is where his grandparents live.

Click here to see one of our classmates recite the poem, School by Winifred C. Marshall.