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Throughout today's literacy lesson, Miss Julia and I shared a wordless picture book with our four 3rd grade students. The book Yellow Umbrella  by Jae Soo Liu provided a meaningful opportunity for the students to engage in creative writing and expression. While showing the wordless picture book, we played the music that came with the book so they could experience the full effect and meaning. Because the book is wordless, we had our students focus on the imagery and color to interpret the books meaning. We then had the students fill out a predictions chart on what they think the meaning of the book is.  The students then created their own story in their notebooks based off their interpretations of Yellow Umbrella . This activity helped enhance their creative writing abilities and show us how they understood this wordless picture book. Each student used their own understanding of the book Yellow Umbrella  and wrote a short story based off the imagery and colors they saw in ...

 Today, Miss. Julia and I had the opportunity to teach our third-grade students about the book Beauty and the Beast.  To start this lesson, we had the students create classroom rules with us that we all agreed on and had them create and decorate their own name tags.  Then, we introduced ourselves and shared a fun fact to get to know one another. We read both the original and an African Culture version of Beauty and the Beast . When reading the cultured version of  Beauty and the Beast  by H. Chuku Lee, the students filled out a story map to help enhance their understanding and comprehension of the story.  After reading the original version of Beauty and the Beast , the students then used their notebooks to create a compare and contrast chart. The students all came up with there own similarities and differences they found and then shared them with one another. Once the students completed their compare and contrast charts, we decided to have them write i...