09/03/2026
Mrs. Hartmann kicked off this lesson by chatting with her third graders about what reading can look and sound like in their classroom. She got everyone thinking by asking, 'How is reading powerful? How does it make us thinkers?' For their discussion, Mrs. Hartmann picked the awesome book "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst. Together, they talked about how everyone has tough days sometimes, but when we work as a team, we can help make things better! The students then imagined how they could rewrite Alexander’s day with questions like: What might a good day look like for him? Instead of a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, what if Alexander had a 'terrific, awesome, wonderful, very good day?'