Missy's demo provided an open ended worksheet that would work great for a challenge me center idea. Students could use that to study something of interest which allow everyone to have something to do at all time. I'm done would no longer be an issue. Thanks!

Our grade level reading discussion today (Writing Through Childhood) stated the importance of not assuming anything. Students need to be shown and have modeled every little thing including how to get paper, put it away etc.... so many things that we just assume they should know how to do since they've been in the building before.

CION Discussion was very interesting. Although we all read the same book we all had our own unique questions regarding the characters and events. My take on Beth was how could she end up with someone such as Obed. Then after the discussion my "picture" of him changed and I could possibly see the reason so now I wonder do we allow enough discussions in our classrooms following the reading of a book to allow our class to grow as readers and writers.