Abby Sunshine

Another impressive time reading A Day With Abby Sunshine. . .

This time, I read to a huge group- 80 kids! We projected the book to a large screen. This way everyone could see the pages and illustrations clearly. With a sizable group, conversing with one another becomes a different game. The kids shared with a partner. During the times we normally discuss things as a whole group, these 2nd graders turned to a neighbor to contribute their ideas. To regain the group’s attention, I simple blew a note on a recorder. . .worked like a charm! This way we got some good discussion, everyone got to participate, and no cacophony (other than my recorder music).

After the large-group reading, I stopped in each of the 4 classrooms to personally check out the creative writing adventures. I could see the creative juices flowing.

These photos capture one of many marvelous conversations with students during this time.

The creative project was to think of a realistic or fictional trick that they thought would be good to teach Abby. I heard so many good ideas. . . .

from teaching her to retrieve a Dr. Pepper from the refrigerator

to jumping to Mars

to playing Beethoven on the piano

to hand stands

to teaching her to cook dinner for us. . . 

The list goes on and on and on. . .these kids were big thinkers!