Fiction vs. Non Fiction

To start the day I read one of my favorite books Stellaluna.  Before I even introduced the books students were asking if it was a fiction or a non-fiction book!  I told them that I was going to read it and then we would decide.  There was a little bit of debate as students some students argued that the book was about real animals so it had to be non-fiction while others realized that the birds and bats in this story were talking.  At the end we all agreed it was a made up story so it had to be a fiction book.

After Music we went to the woods were it was much less wet than the playground.  Many students continued to work on structures started by Mr. D's and Mrs. Spinner's classes who go to the woods on Wednesday.

A large part of the afternoon was working on writing.  Many more students chose to work on their first booklet.  Students are writing on a variety of topics that they know a lot about such as volcanoes, their pets, their families and dinosaurs!