Nicholas+A

=Book Log=
 * # || =Book Title= || =Author= || =E, JR, C= || =Date Completed= ||
 * ==1== || charlie bumpers vs.teacher of the year || bill harley || e || summer ||
 * ==2== || athlete vs. mathlete || w.c.mack || jr || summer ||
 * ==3== || Stephen Curry: The Inspiring Story Of One Of Basketball's Sharpest Shooters || Geoffreys || e || summer ||
 * ==4== || Fotunately The Milk || Neil Gaiman || e || 9/16/15 ||
 * ==5== || Flora and Ulysses || Kate DiCamillo || jr || 9/27/15 ||
 * 6 || __Mr. Lemoncellos' Librar__y || Chris Grabenstein || jr || 11/9/15 ||
 * 7 || Counting by 7's || holly goldberg sloan || jr/c || 12/8/15 ||
 * 8 || the six crowns ||  || e || 1/5/16 ||
 * 9 || flying solo ||  || jr || 2/2/16 ||

Mrs. Palmieri recommends...

 * ==#== || ==Book Title== || ==Author== ||
 * ==1== || I, Q || Roland Smith ||
 * ==2== || Island (series) || Gordon Korman ||
 * ==3== || Swindle (series) || Gordon Korman ||
 * ==4== ||  ||   ||

February 2, 2016

Hi Nick-

I can't believe that we only have around 70 pages of __Hiding Out at Pancake Palace__ left! It definitely feels like we are reaching what they call the climax of the story (the highest point in the action of the story and usually the point where the biggest problem in the story is solved). *I predict that the climax of the story will be when everyone in town finds out that Aaron is really Elvis- but I wonder if this will happen before or after Cecilia finds her music? Like I've told you in class, I think this story might really be about being who you want to be and not being who someone else (like your parents) wants you to be. * I predict that in the end Aaron may go back to living with his dad and Cher and being "Elvis" but maybe he'll be the Elvis he really wants to be and not who his dad wants him to be.

It sounds like you are enjoying __Flying Solo__ so far.

dear mrs. p 2/2/16 flying solo is a book about these kids who's teacher is out for the day. then they send a substitute and she doesn't make it so the kids have no teacher for the day. my prediction is that the kids can survive a day without a teacher but there is some pro and cons. one pro is that you have no teacher and you can mess around with your friends. one con is you can't really switch classes without another teacher finding out. also they have to send the attendance down or the office/principal will go down to the classroom and see that there is no teacher.also when they come from lunch they can't stay outside they have to go in with a key or they have to go through the front and they will get busted.talk to you later.

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**
 * 1/5/16**
 * my book talk is six crowns.I will tell you about the six crowns. the six crowns is about a lamplighter and a girl hedgehog named Esmeralda. they both went on a adventure and try to find the six crowns and the mean pirates were chasing them while they were on there adventure. later on in the story the lamplighter found a key under his foot and then he realized it was one of the six crowns. then there was a bag of black powder and it exploded the ship and the girl and the lamplighter went flying and hit the drune mines and there were slaves there mining. so then there was a chain on every single one of the slaves and the lamplighter found a place to put the key. he put the key in and all the slaves ran out with a big thank you.**


 * 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**


 * PS- Don't forget capital letters when typing!**


 * december 14, 2015**


 * hi mrs. p**


 * In counting by sevens the girl loses her parents. they were outside the fosters freeze at a sea green, metal picnic table eating ice cream. She had her first day of middle school and she was scared. this guy named dell duke is a person who works at the school and handles difficult cases. Also there are three groups the misfits, oddballs, lone wolfs, and the weirdo. the misfits were kooky kids who just couldn't help dress themselves. THE oddballs were kids who were odd and liked art and music.The lone wolfs were kids who get angry and think they are rebles. Finally the weirdos, they would never give anything back and bite there finger nails. Another way to but this is misfits were yellow, oddballs were purple, lone wolfs were green, and weirdos were red.**


 * I hope to talk to u soon.**


 * your friend, nick A**


 * December 6, 2015**
 * Hi Nick,**


 * 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 13, 2015

Hi Nick,

I read __Mr. Lemoncellos' Librar__y this summer and it was one of my favorite MCBAs so far! You mentioned that you liked the setting of the book- what is the setting? (now I have read and know this answer, but I want to make sure that YOU know this answer) You also mentioned that the author was funny- can you give me an example of something funny from the book? If I remember correctly when the holograms appear they say some pretty funny things.

I wish I had more time to read. I'm so tired at night it's hard to stay awake long enough to get through anything. I would really like to read the new Rick Riordan book, __The Sword of Summer__ (part of his new series called Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard). I simply think Rick Riordan is a genius and I wish I had thought of the idea of using ancient mythology and including that with modern characters. Have you read any of his other books, like __The Lightning Thief__ or __The Lost Hero__?

Hope to hear from you soon, Mrs. P

PS- your book log looks a little empty? Let's get Mr. Lemoncellos' Library on it!

october 23 2015 Dear Mrs. p I am reding mr. lemincoloes library it is a very good book. I am not realy far in the book but the book is very funny,awesome, and fun to read. After reading the first chapter of the book i felt like I could read it with so much with so much excitment. this is probably the best book I have read in my life.the setting of the book is realy good because it discribes so much points in the book.I notice that the author is really funny.I also think that there should be illistration

october 7 2015 Dear Mrs.P

I loved __flora and ulysses.__ it is a awsome book.I learned that the squirl has super powers. He has super strength. He can also fly. He knows how to type on a type writer to. I loved talking to you. cant wait to talk to you next time your student, nicholas a

October 3, 2015

Hi Nick,

Thank you so much for your first letter. I'm so glad that you are enjoying __Silverwing__. I liked your prediction about Shade and Chinook. We certainly know that Shade would like to have a band and that he is quite jealous that Marina has one! Do you think that bands are somehow important like Shade thinks? What about Goth's opinion that it just shows he was their prisoner?

I know that you've been reading __Flora and Ulysses__- have you enjoyed it?

I am trying to get back to reading __Elvis and the Underdogs__. I see from your book log that you read it this summer too. I had started it this summer and kind of abandoned it. I hate to abandon books and I always try to go back and finish reading them. Sometimes when I do that, the second time I read it and I read it a little more I get really into it! Has this ever happened to you? The main character Benji is small and sickly,** *this reminds me of Shade. Benji's mother is also very overprotective of him and smothers him like Ariel does to Shade. I wonder if when I start reading again if Benji will kind of break away from his mother like Shade did?

Talk to you soon, Mrs. P

September 30,2015 Dear Mrs.Palmieri, I love the book Silverwing because I like small bats.If I was Shade I would afraid to lose my colony and be lost in the ocean.A prediction I have for Sunwing is that shade will find Chinook banded along with his colony.I enjoyed talking to you.I will talk to you next time.

your friend, Nicholas Andreev

September 10, 2015 Dear Nick,

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