November is here!

October flew by and now we are being blessed with some beautiful November weather for Minnesota!
Quickly, here are my two new favorite Halloween week lessons additions for the year:
-writing scary graphic comix with the 6th graders with this fun website
-my love for humorous zombie picture books (Zombie in Love, anyone?) continues with this new read aloud: Peanut Butter and Brains!

New things for November to be excited about:
-Newsela: Online non-fiction new stories with 5 different reading level options! You can assign specific news articles to classes, etc! The elementary edition is the one we will be using!

-celebrating the release of Old School, the newest Wimpy Kid book, out today! We are celebrating by playing the Wimpy version of Mash (from the Old School promotional kit) and old school games like this Wimpy Ice Cream Parlour.

-continuing work on Digital Passport with my fourth graders

-beginning coding unit at the end of November with one of my schools