Readers Arrrrrgh Leaders!

Ahoy, me hearties! This week we celebrated National Talk Like a Pirate Day. We all dressed like pirates and invited a community leader to our classroom to read to us. Officer Waddell, Will's dad, visited me lads and lassies to tell them a little about what he does each day as well as to read Tough Boris. This book is great to have a discussion about character traits and also how the way we can perceive people is not always correct. Even the meanest, toughest, most massive pirates will cry. After the book was read, of course the class wanted to ask questions about topics such as tasers and robbers. So Hunter ended up in handcuffs for a short time, which they loved seeing :) Then it was time for our visitor to leave. We're so glad Officer Waddell could come make this day more special for us! To top it all off, we had delicious pirate cupcakes provided by Emily and her family. They were not only cute, but also our first taste of cupcakes for the school year! Yummy!
I'm hoping to start letting the students post updates to this blog to give them ownership in sharing what we do in our classroom community. So be looking for that soon because I'm sure it will be great. Savvy? :)