IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Today, we began painting our puppet stage blue!  It is looking quite nice.  I think we will finish it tomorrow, and then we will be ready to add the curtains to it next week.  Thank you to Jett and Oliver’s moms for helping us paint today!

I wanted to tell you a story about something that I noticed today.   We have been talking about rhyming words a lot this week.  Reading books with rhyming words, playing rhyming games, etc.  Well, today Jamari was reading Hop on Pop by Dr. Suess during our Reader’s Workshop independent reading time.  While I was conferencing with him, I asked him if he would like to read his book (which is pretty long) to the class, and he was thrilled to read it and show his friends that he could read this book!  I told the friends as we were sitting down to listen to Madeline S. (who did an incredible job reading Playing to our friends) and Jamari read that Jamari was going to read this book, and that even though it was a longer book than usual we would honor his hard work that he had shown during our independent time.  I cannot begin to tell you how good of a job our friends did listening to Jamari.  Towards the end, they got up and surrounded Jamari and coached him through the rest of the book until we were all reading the last two pages (which were a little trickier for Jamari to read).  I was so proud of Jamari for reading this longer book and being so successful while reading, and I was so proud of the rest of our class for sitting, listening, and supporting their friend.  While watching this experience, I just sat back and really admired each and every kiddo that is in this class and appreciated what they were doing.

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