Kensuke's Kingdom

     This week marks the end of Kensuke's Kingdom! 🌴 Everyone seemed to enjoy the novel and had a lot to talk about in our discussion today. Kensuke's Kingdom is a fictional novel that is created from very realistic possibilities. By the end of the book many of our classmates were questioning if the novel was true or not! We had a discussion about why the author would choose to make it seem so realistic and how that can help increase reader's attention.
     Kensuke's Kingdom brought a lot of insightful work, so be sure to ask your child about it! I will have all of the response sheets graded by next Monday, and their summaries are completed online in Google Classroom if you would like them to share those with you.
     We also had some time to complete a few projects along the way. The first project we worked on was mapping Peggy Sue's journey. This required students to use Google Maps to locate and trace each stop that was discussed in the novel. The second project was to map Kensuke's Kingdom. This project consisted of an image of the island Michael and Kensuke were stranded on, leaving the details of where certain animals, shelters, and events took place up to each student to map. Following the map projects we completed a message in a bottle. This is something Michael tries to do, but it doesn't turn out so well. For this project, each student pretended they were stranded on the island and wrote their own message in a bottle.
Great work on this novel project! 👍