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Just so you know, DIRT stands for Daily Independent Reading Time. That is what we call our year-long reading project in Tim's room. It is tough to finish but we know it can be done.

In DIRT, you will read 7 books. It will be one book from each genre in our classroom library which includes: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Animal, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Sports, Friendship and Growing Up, and Adventure. Tim even does it! This project also includes lots of peer reviews, exit interviews, book reviews, and book chats. Peer reviews are where you meet with a friend to talk about the book. Exit interviews are when you meet with Tim about the book while book reviews are like a book report. A book chat is when you do a presentation in front of the class. The presentation has a visual aid so you could do: a poster, write a letter to the author, create a comic strip, construct a map about the book, build a scene using legos, make a book trailer, craft badges for the characters, and more. 

We are having fun with this project so far!

By Iris and Jane

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This year, like every year we are doing a project called DIRT, (in other classrooms it's called DEAR) DIRT stands for Daily Independent Reading Time. It's a year-long project that involves reading 7 books, one of each genre. The genres we are required to read are: mystery, friendship and growing up, historical fiction, science fiction/fantasy, sports, animals, and adventure. After we read a book we do a peer conference with a person of our choice, however, we can only do one person one time so we get to hear lots of new ideas. After you're done with your peer conference you head on over to Tim, who will be your partner for your exit review. Here, Tim will ask you questions about the book you have finished and learn what you liked. If Tim approves of the book you get a sticker in your passport have read one book for DIRT! We are also required to do 2 book reviews and 2 book chats. A book review is when you write a paragraph or two about the book you read. Then the book review will be hung up in the classroom. A book chat is when you make/draw a visual aid, this means a poster, food, or an object and you explain the main plot of the book to the class. So far we are having a good year and are reading lots of good books!


By Esther  and  William 

Making a slide show about Lifters

Exploring a new book

A book chat

Sylvan's cake presentation




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