Hi my name is Jana and I am a student for McGuan Goes Grant. My blog is Jana's Journey Through Fifth Grade. And this week in the classroom we read Black Beauty which in my opinion is a very good book because there is so much feeling and meaning to it one example of feeling is when Ginger is telling her story. We also focused on Readers Workshop roles, and our blobs, which are blobs we drew, made them something and then made a story about them. This week we read our stories to our partners, other people in our class. We're doing the Blob to write a story that is 100% us and make a moral to it.

This is a picture of my blob:


Now I'm going to interview one of my classmates, Edie B. Edie will be bright green and I'm this color

Q: How do you like Mr. McGuan so far

A: He had been a great teacher so far. He let's us do almost everything independently and has a lot of trust in us when we work. 

Q: Do trust yourself as much as Mr. McGuan trusts you?

A: Not all the way. I think I some times get a bit distracted, but trusting myself is the whole point of being in Mr. McGuan's class. He wants us to really be FREE when we are learning, but mostly, he wants us to be ourselves. 

Q: That's great. Now my final question is, why do you think he had us to do the assignments we did?

A: First of all, to get the idea, he gave us a lot of out-of-the-box assignments. I think he wanted us to do them because you don't do these kind of assignments in regular school. Also, all these assignments he told us to do consisted a part of us in them.

Thanks Edie. Well that's all for this post and back to McGuan Goes Grant