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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:06:15 -0500
I just reread this and see that it is riddled with errors of every sort. Passion causes me to become even a worse speller than usual. Ah well...for what it is worth, here's a cleaned up version (and June, I expected giggles, really and truly, but was interested that there weren't any...and I didn't prepare them at all other than to listen for something that was controversial.):
> Now I imagined that when I read it aloud to my class that some minor
> giggling might occurred. However....
> I just had my morning meeting with my 4th graders. I told them that
> something in the book had caused quite a stir. A couple of the kids
> already knew, but the rest did not. I said it was in the first couple
> of pages and I'd read it to them to see if they figured out what it
> was. So I did. When I came to the dreaded word there was
> nothing...not a giggle... not a puzzled look...nothing except they
> clearly were curious and wanted me to read on. So I did to the bottom
> of page 3 when I had to stop because it was time for math. I've
> promised to finish reading Short Sammy's story later today.
>
> I then asked them what they thought was causing such a stir. Several
> said it was the drinking and then one said it was about where the dog
> got bitten. And then the two kids who already knew and I said, yes it
> was. They were bemused and said, like me, that it was no big deal.
> After all we see those parts of dogs all the time, they said.
>
> So not even giggles....
>
> Monica
>
>
> Monica Edinger
> The Dalton School
> New York NY
> monicaedinger at gmail.com
> my blog educating alice is at http://medinger.wordpress.com
>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:06:15 -0500
I just reread this and see that it is riddled with errors of every sort. Passion causes me to become even a worse speller than usual. Ah well...for what it is worth, here's a cleaned up version (and June, I expected giggles, really and truly, but was interested that there weren't any...and I didn't prepare them at all other than to listen for something that was controversial.):
> Now I imagined that when I read it aloud to my class that some minor
> giggling might occurred. However....
> I just had my morning meeting with my 4th graders. I told them that
> something in the book had caused quite a stir. A couple of the kids
> already knew, but the rest did not. I said it was in the first couple
> of pages and I'd read it to them to see if they figured out what it
> was. So I did. When I came to the dreaded word there was
> nothing...not a giggle... not a puzzled look...nothing except they
> clearly were curious and wanted me to read on. So I did to the bottom
> of page 3 when I had to stop because it was time for math. I've
> promised to finish reading Short Sammy's story later today.
>
> I then asked them what they thought was causing such a stir. Several
> said it was the drinking and then one said it was about where the dog
> got bitten. And then the two kids who already knew and I said, yes it
> was. They were bemused and said, like me, that it was no big deal.
> After all we see those parts of dogs all the time, they said.
>
> So not even giggles....
>
> Monica
>
>
> Monica Edinger
> The Dalton School
> New York NY
> monicaedinger at gmail.com
> my blog educating alice is at http://medinger.wordpress.com
>
-- Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY monicaedinger at gmail.com my blog educating alice is at http://medinger.wordpress.comReceived on Tue 20 Feb 2007 11:06:15 AM CST
