Rowan

=Book Log=
 * # || =Book Title= || =Author= || =E, JR, C= || =Date Completed= ||
 * ==1== || I Survived 9/11 || Tarshis || E || Summer ||
 * ==2== || Wings of Fire || Tui T. Sutherland || JR || August ||
 * ==3== || Flora & Ulysses || Kate DiCamillo || JR || Sept.29, 2015 ||
 * ==4== || Lunch Ladie Mutant Mathlete || Jarrett J. Krosoczka || E || Sept 28, 2015 ||
 * ==5== || Lunch Ladie and the SchoolWide Scuffle || Jarret J. Krosoczka || E || Oct. 1, 2015 ||
 * 6 || Lunch Ladie and the Author Visit Vendetta || Jarret J. Krosoczka || E || Oct.1, 2015 ||
 * 7 || Star Wars In Hyperspace || Ryder Windham || E || Oct.8, 2015 ||
 * 8 || Escape to the End || ? || JR || Nov.27, 2015 ||
 * 9 || War of the Worlds || H.G. Wells || E || Jan.7, 2016 ||
 * 10 || Island ||  || JR || Jan.23, 2016 ||
 * 11 || The One and Only Ivan || Katherine Applegate || JR || Feb.17, 2016 ||
 * 12 || The 5th Wave || Rick Yancey || C || Still Reading ||

Mrs. Palmieri recommends...

 * ==#== || ==Book Title== || ==Author== ||
 * ==1== || Found: The Missing #1 || Margaret Peterson Haddix ||
 * ==2== || Sent: The Missing #2 || Haddix ||
 * ==3== || I,Q || Roland Smith ||
 * ==4== || Swindle || Gordon Korman ||

February 25, 2016

Hello Mrs.P

I'm half way through The 5th Wave and it's getting really good. Cassie and her brother are at a camp named Camp Haven and a doctor named Mrs. Pam that's injecting microchips into teens and adults to track down them if something wrong happens. Camp Haven is a safe building that trains people to become soldiers and destroy the mothership. Sammy is at a different camp called Camp Ashpit that is only for little kids. Another doctor at Camp Ashpit will inject microchips into all the kids. Cassie met a mysterious teen, a couple years older than Cassie that is by her side named Evan. Not much is said about Evan but we know he has a beard. Also Sammy met a young girl named Megan that Sammy thinks she has a sickness that spreads through the body and makes you bleed out of any crack or hole in the body. In Hollis Woods I have a prediction that Hollis and Stephan have a fight and Stephan doesn't want Hollis in his house but, when Hollis leaves he wants her back. Also in group I said that I think that someone is going to die like Stephan or Josie.

Sincerely Your Friend, Rowan

February 3, 2016

Aloha Mrs.P

I got a new book yesterday called __The 5th Wave.__ It's turning into a movie that I'm going to watch after I read the book. So far I know that the main character is 16 years old and her name is Cassie/Cassiopeia. There are 5 waves in the book(Lights Out, Surfs Up, Pestilence, Silencer, and THE 5 WAVE). The aliens are the things that causes these waves and they come among the human race and try to kill them all. Also I'm still reading The One and Only Ivan and it's getting better there's a new elephant in the area named Ruby that's young. The One and Only Ivan is going to be my 5th MCBA book this year. Also Alvin Day has read both of the 5th wave books. We've been talking about the book and how similar the book is to the movie since Alvin has already seen the movie.

Sincerely Your Friend, Rowan

January 19, 2016

Hello,

I didn't read __The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck__ but, I might read it after the Island book. I think Cecilia will learn some music from Elvis and Cecilia will get more friends from the music that she was taught. Last year I was in the middle of a MCBA book called __Liar & Spy__ but, I didn't understand it at all. Also there was too much stuff going on in the story. But, I found another MCBA book called __Capture the Flag__ and it was my favorite book of the year because it was all about 3 kids trying to find a stolen flag. It's a really good mystery book. Did you read it last year?

Sincerely, ROWAN

January 18, 2016

Hi there,

I wish I had more time to read at home, but it was funny over this weekend I found myself thinking about __Hiding Out at Pancake Palace__. I was thinking about what would happen next and I'm getting really excited to finish it! This is what happens when I get hooked into a book! I wasn't sure I loved this book at first. At first, I thought Cecilia seemed strange (alright, she IS strange) and I wasn't sure if I would like her as a character. I have found that if you don't like the characters in a book, it can make it very hard to want to keep reading the book.

This happened to me last year when I read aloud my class the MCBA, __The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck__. Did you read that one last year? The female main character of that book was Laurie, and she was quite unlikable! She was snobby, kind of nasty, and altogether kind of tough to tolerate. It took a little while but class and I really go into the story and soon I better "understood" why Laurie acted the way she did. We liked the book so much, we decided to immediately read the sequel, __The Magician's Bird__. Reading that was easy because we already knew and understood the characters. Do you find that you like to read sequels or books in a series because she kind of already know a lot about the characters?


 * Feel free to tell me about a character in the book that you just read/or are currently reading**


 * Back to Cecilia- so at the beginning she seemed strange, but now I find myself feeling sorry for her. She is lonely and kind of an outcast. I'm sure it's not easy to be her- and it definitely feels like she really wishes she had friends. On page 125 it says, "It wasn't like Cecilia wanted to be friends with Natalie. All she wanted was to wave and have them wave back." It's such a simple thing- you don't realize how much it might mean to someone just to be friendly towards them.**


 * What are your thoughts on our read aloud?**


 * Your friend,**
 * Mrs. P**


 * Dear Mrs.P**


 * Sorry I didn't do the wiki letter last week. The War of the Worlds is a really good book that's small but interesting. In the book it doesn't tell you the main characters name but there is two other main characters named Henderson & Ogilvy. The book is all about martians finding a new world to live on because Mars is dying out. The only way to live on Earth is to make the human species extinct. The narrator of the story is the main character of the story that we don't know the name of. The story takes place at the dawn of the 20th century. I'm reading Island by Gordan Korman now. My dad is going to make me do a book talk sheet on it once I finish it but, I'm still going to do War of the Worlds for the book talk.**
 * Sincerely, Rowan**


 * You never finished your letter from before vacation, so don't forget to stay on top of this or you will get an OOPs next time :( **


 * January 3, 2015**


 * Hello Team 7-**


 * Welcome back from vacation!**


 * I found myself thinking about our new read aloud during this break. I always get excited when I'm reading a new book out loud to my students that I also haven't read.**


 * Several of you were talking to me about your book talks before we left for vacation. I know specifically people were wondering about how to figure out a book's "theme" or "author's message". This sometimes feels like it will be hard, but might not be as tricky as you think. Think about what the author is trying to teach you, the reader, through the story; what big life lesson do they want you to know. One of the themes in __Silverwing__ is teamwork, or believing in yourself.**


 * What do we think might be the message in __Hiding Out at Pancake Palace__? Let's think about what we know so far. Elvis is cutting off and coloring his hair- something he is famous for and he has to hide away from the world because of this embarrassing thing. I wonder if the message might be something about "being true to oneself" like don't be pretend to be something else, be who you want to be. I'm also wondering if Elvis really wants to be this famous star- or is this something his dad really wants? Again, since I'm reading this with you guys I'm just guessing (speculating)**


 * I don't think we know as much about Cecilia yet- but I predict she and Evis (Aaron) are going to help each other in some way. She wants to find out if the trees sing- he likes to sing. **


 * Guess we will read more and find out!**


 * Your friend,**
 * Mrs. P**


 * Dear Mrs.Palmieri**


 * I'm going to start reading Found after I finish all the work I have to do. Looking forward to it.**
 * When I'm at home reading I'm reading on my step mom, Kim's iPad. There's a lot of free books on Google books that I like.**


 * November 28, 2015**
 * Hi Rowan,**


 * i had a nice chat with your parents at conferences about what you've been reading. You mentioned that you were having trouble getting in to __Found__. It's one of those books that if you give it another chance, and maybe a few more chapters, you might just find yourself totally sucked in! I know that you've enjoyed The Lunch Lady books, so you must like slightly funny books. Maybe we can find**


 * As Christmas approaches, I often like to reread some favorite holiday themed books from my own childhood. When I was your age and a little younger, I loved to read __The Little House on the Prairie__ series. These wonderful stories are from the childhood of the author, Laura Ingalls Wilder, as she grew up in the late 1800s in places like Wisconsin, Kansas, and eventually the Dakota Territory (today South Dakota). This time of year can be so busy and crazy and I always enjoy seeing how simple this pioneer family made their holidays. Sometimes we get so caught up in "buy, buy, buy" or " I want" that I really like reading these descriptions of the simple food and presents that they had and the happy holiday they created as a result. Here is a quote from fifth book in the series called,**
 * By the Shores of Silver Lake. Chapter 19 "Christmas Eve"-**


 * "It had snowed all day and soft, large flakes were still falling. The winds were quiet so that snow lay deep on the ground, and Pa took the shovel with him when he went do the evening chores. **
 * "Well, it's a white Christmas," he said **
 * "Yes, and we're all here and all well, so it's a merry one," said Ma **
 * The surveyors' house was full of secret. Mary had knitted new, warm socks for Pa's Christmas present. Laura had made him a necktie from a piece of silk that she found in Ma's scrap bag. Together in the attic, she and Carrie had made an apron for Ma from on of the calico curtains that had hung in the shanty. In the scrap bag they found a piece of fine, white muslin; Laura had cut a small square from it, and secretly Mary had hemmed the square with her fine stitches and made a handkerchief for Ma. They put it in the apron pocket. Then they wrapped the apron in tissue paper and hidden it under the quilt blocks in Mary's box." **


 * Descriptions like these really help me imagine what it would have been like to make gifts like Laura and her sisters did. Life was very different then.** *But when you read the descriptions of the family making and eating their meals and celebrating, it makes you as teh reader feel like maybe life isn't that different after all.

When I want to read these books, I usually pull out my little paperback set of all the books that I bought in book order when I was a student teacher. I was recently excited to discover __A Little House Christmas Treasury: Festive Holiday Stories__ was published. This is one book that contains all of the holiday stories from the author's different books. Perfect!

I hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family.

Your friend, Mrs. P

November 6, 2015

Hallo Mrs. P

I'm staring to read found and it's good Nick M. is reading it too. After found I'm going to read Jack gets a clue for my final MCBA book.

October 25, 2015

Hi Rowan-

I'm trying to remember if I gave you the actual copy of Found to read or if I just put the book titles on your log? I really think you might like this and I also think it might be time to challenge yourself as a reader. When you spend a lot of time reading books like Lunch Lady you start to lose some of your good reading skills.

Dear Mrs.Palmeiri I can't get into Athlete VS Mathlete or Found I don't know why.

Looks like we need to find some Challenging books for you!

October 2, 2015

Hallo! Mrs.Palmieri

The Lunch Ladie books are comics but, I like reading them because they have a good base and I like superheroes. I'm trying to find an MCBA book to read. I wish The Missing was a MCBA book. The Silverwing movie is really good for little kids I watched it with my friend Christopher I want to watch it again and try to see the similarity of the book and the movie. When were finished with Silverwing I think I'm going to read Sunwing.

Sincerely, Rowan

October 2, 2015

Hi Rowan-

Thanks for writing me back! I'm glad that you are enjoying __Silverwing__ and I"m wondering about the movie you watched in daycare. Maybe it was actually the Canadian tv show! I think that it might be part of Goth's plan to eat some of Shade's colony! Marina is probably right to not trust them.

I know that you've been reading a bunch of those __Lunch Lady__ books- are they like comic books?

At home, I'm still reading Elvis and the Underdogs. I've had a harder time getting in to this book and found it a little boring. I actually haven't even got to the part where Elvis the dog is introduced. I HATE to abandon books, so I'm hoping if I pick this up now that I might be ready to give it another shot. **We could compare the main character, Benji, to Shade from Silverwing. Benji is small and sickly and his mother kind of smothers him like Ariel does to Shade. I wonder if Benji will kind of break away from his mom and have an adventure like Shade?**


 * Talk to you soon,**
 * Mrs. P**

Aloha Mrs.Palmieri,

This book reminds me of a movie I watched in kinder care because** the movie was about a bat who gets lost with his mother in the forest and their home burns down too. The author got me interested when Goth & Throb broke out of the cage. I'm scared that Shade & Marina will find the colony and Goth will follow them and eat some of the bats in the colony. What if Goth eats up Freida who will take over her spot Shade, Ariel, or even Cassiel. Your friend in reading, Rowan

September 10, 2015 Dear Rowan,

I am so excited to be sharing __Silverwing__ with you this year as a read aloud. This is definitely one of my all time favorite books, which is probably why I can’t imagine starting a school year without sharing it with my class. *The genre of this book is definitely fantasy since I don’t believe that bats and owls have wars or detailed adventures together. I also consider this to be a genre of my own invention- called Animal Adventure. I love the character Shade; he’s one of my all time favorites. *If I could talk to Shade, I would ask him if he thinks it was worth it to break the law and see the sun, especially after what happens to his colony as a result. What do you think of __Silverwing__ so far?

Your friend in reading,

Mrs. Palmieri J