Nate & Nikkiah's bags, Courtney reads, & Latitude and Longitude

We're getting toward the end of sharing our bags. You may have noticed we're going in alphabetical order by first names. Today Nate started us off. I had a hard time deciding which photographs to use. Nate brought so much in that small bag! I decided on the one with the karate belt for his Build-a-Bear...and one with an orange golf ball. Nate also had baseball cards...he's just a sports kind of guy!

I had no trouble deciding which ones to use with Nikkiah. Troll dolls! Oh my gosh,I haven't seen those in a LONG time. I use to have some when I was young and I absolutely loved them. The second photo of Nikkiah shows her in clothes from the company her dad works for. Modeling with items from the bag is catching on!

Courtney came to Room 8 for the first time this year. She owns our local book store, but more than that, Courtney is the 'best reader alouder!' Now that's not proper English, but I don't know how else to say it. She's been coming to Room 8 for 7-8 years at least, reading to us every Wednesday afternoon. Today she started Poppy and Rye, by Avi. I was reading Poppy and we finished it today. Poppy and Rye is the sequel to Poppy. Believe it or not, I forgot to take a picture! I'll take one to post next Wednesday.


This afternoon we learned how to locate a place on a map by naming the coordinates. For example, I wrote 30N, 120E (I don't know how to put the 'degrees' sign in after the numbers...but it's 30 degrees North) and then all the scholars in Room 8 looked in their atlas' and found SHANGHAI. We located Indonesia (0,120E), South Africa (30S, 30E), Brazil (15S,60W), the Black Sea (45N, 30E), and Uganda (0, 30E) by their coordinates. If you practice this at home, remember the line of latitude is named first. Lines of Latitude are those that are parallel to the equator. They'll end either in N for North or S for South. Room 8 LOVED doing this activity!