NATIONAL AUTHOR’S DAY – November 1
NATIONAL AUTHOR’S DAY
Every year on November 1, millions of people celebrate authors and the books that they write on National Author’s Day.
After her grandmother’s death in 1968, Sue Cole promoted the observance of National Authors Day. She urged people to write a note to their favorite author on November 1, to “brighten up the sometimes lonely business of being a writer.” She also suggested flying the American flag as another way of showing appreciation for the men and women who have created American literature.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Purchase some books by your favorite author to support them. Use #NationalAuthorsDay to post on social media.
HISTORY
In 1928, Nellie Verne Burt McPherson, president of the Bement, Illinois Women’s Club had an idea of setting aside a day to celebrate American authors. McPherson was a teacher and throughout her life, an avid reader. While she was recuperating in the hospital during World War I, she wrote a fan letter to fiction writer, Irving Bacheller, telling him how much she enjoyed reading his story Eben Holden’s Last Day A’ Fishin. Upon receiving her letter, Bacheller sent her an autographed copy of another story, and it was then that McPherson realized that she would never be able to thank him adequately for his gift. McPerson decided to show her appreciation by submitting an idea for a National Author’s Day to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. They passed a resolution declaring November 1 as a day to honor American writers. The United States Department of Commerce recognized this day in 1949.
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First Grade:
This week we continued working on Pig Latin, which is a fun language game. It is formed by transferring the initial consonant cluster of each word to the end of the word and adding -ay. We needed to recap a bit since we had a long weekend. I had the children translate their names into Pig Latin. That was fun, and we got a few laughs. I then handed out a worksheet that contained lyrics to a song. They had to translate the song with a partner. We then spent some time trying to learn how to sing it in Pig Latin.
Second Grade:
On Monday, the children were all ready to give their Pages presentation. We had some mishaps, but worked through them. I did have to redirect the children a couple of times while the other children were giving their presentation. We made it through, though, and I was pretty impressed with their hard work. After each presentation, we took comments from the other students. Overall, the comments were encouraging, with a few suggestions on improvements. On Tuesday, I projected a sentence on the board and asked the children to find all of the nouns. We then took it a step further and made a t-chart, and the children were asked to identify the common and proper nouns. We will continue with this next week.
Third Grade:
The children finished up with their Pages Presentation. A couple were absent Monday so we didn't start presenting until Tuesday. I was very impressed with their presentation skills. They were very confident and cheerful. After the presentations, I had some students share their Journals. We then spent the rest of the time reading up on the history of Beatrix Potter. We will talk more about her and the books we will be reading next week.
Fourth Grade:
The girls continued working on their creative stations. I think they really enjoyed this activity. They had many activities to choose from, such as: write down what month is your favorite and then share with a partner, or compare leaves on a tree to needles on a tree and create a poster. All-in-all, they are very creative girls! We are pretty much finished with the creative stations, so next week they will share with the class their best creative poster. I'm looking forward to this!
First Grade:
This week we finished our Think Deeply. I reminded the children about last week, and how we filled in a Think Frame with our thoughts. So this week we had to take it a step further as mathematicians. They were presented with a worksheet that asked what it looks like when someone wins? They needed to draw how a scale would look. They were presented with two bags: one with a circle on it, and one with a triangle. They then needed to explain, using the terms "heavier than, lighter than, and about the same, to compare the objects in the bag. They needed a bit of encouragement and help with this activity. We then discussed how you can use "heavier than" and" lighter than" to describe the scale since the circle bag is heavier than the square bag; as is the square bag lighter than the circle bag. They sure are smart little kiddos!! 
Second Grade:
On Wednesday, we continued with our Classifying Triangles worksheet. A couple children stayed behind in their classroom to finish up their pumpkin carving activity. On Thursday, we started a Think Frame. The Think Frame helps get their thoughts going, and takes what they have learned so far and puts it into writing. With a student at the doc cam, we read the question together. We needed to find two triangles, put them together to make a rectangle, trace it, find lines of symmetry and explain. This can be a bit difficult so we take it slowly. Next week they will transfer their thoughts to a Think Deeply.
Third Grade:
We started off the week going over our lesson from last week. I asked the students if they had any questions about what I was looking for in their answers, and what exceptions I had for them? They all agreed that they were ready for the Check-Up. As some were struggling with the questions, I then asked them if they were paying attention to my earlier discussion. Quite often during class time we get off subject and
Fourth Grade:
We started off the class reviewing the Venn Diagram from last week. We then jumped
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