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This term 4T will be participating in the Global Read Aloud (GRA) where classes all over the world connect with each other and discuss their thoughts and predictions about a chosen class novel. Click here to read more about classes that we will be connecting with.
This year, the chosen book is called ‘Amal Unbound’ written by Aisha Seed.
In the first chapter, Amal tells us that she dreams of becoming a teacher when she grows up. Leave a comment below and share your dreams for your future.
For our international visitors, don’t forget to also tell us where you are from in your comment!
In Year 4, we called August ‘COMMENT BONANZA MONTH.’
The focus was to teach as many people as they could how to write a great comment and share their learning with their family.
At the beginning of the month we predicted we would receive approximately 100-150 comments and that we would get many at first and then less towards the end of the month.
WELL, we in fact received 689 comments and were busy feeding our comment monsters EVERYDAY!
Click here to see just how many cookies that is!
This is the most comments ever received in Ms Tirtilas’s comment bonanza month history – a new record!
Our very full cookie comment monsters
Our totals were:
145 Mum and Dad comments
59 Brother and Sister comments
40 Aunties and Uncles comments
9 cousin comments
27 grandparents cookies
48 family friend comments
27 teacher comments
333 blog buddy comments
Have a look at the world map on our sidebar to see where many of these comments came from.
Leave a comment telling us about someone that you taught to write a quality comment.
Gosh time certainly does fly! Here we are, our second last week of participating in the Global Read Aloud project.
In 4T, we have come to greatly care for Roz and Brightbill and are drawing many links between how the animals treat each other and how we interact with people on a day to day basis.
In Chapter 58, the animals talk about their purpose in life.
“Everything has a purpose . . . The sun is meant to give light. Plants are meant to grow. We owls are meant to hunt.”
In your opinion, what is Roz’s purpose and why?
Read the instructions of how to leave your thoughts on this global padlet below. Return regularly to see if someone has left you a comment or maybe you could even add to someone else’s thinking.
A big part of participating in GRA is discussing the text, sharing our thoughts about the characters’ actions and inferring themes and making predictions about what might happen next. How is this different to how we usually interact with texts in the classroom, you ask?
WELL, we share this thinking with classes GLOBALLY with classes from around the wordl reading the same book!
Here is our first connection! Welcome to Ms Larson’s class!
Students, watch each other’s videos and try to guess which city each class is from.
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Leave a comment with your response to this question:
How is Roz changing since first washing ashore on the island? What is happening to her mindset, her emotions, and how she is adapting to her environment? Give examples to explain your answer.
