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Reading Rainbow new theme song: 
The new Reading Rainbow theme song creates the expectation that reading is fun. It includes children interacting with books and reading is fun. The song portrays that books can take you anywhere, as long as you are reading it is a good thing. I think it is important for teachers to remember this while teaching young learners to read. It is important that we surround our students with a wide range of text materials and allow them to choose the books they read. 

Essential Elements of Sentences in the First Grade:
They first name something (rabbit). Next, they turned to their partner to tell what the rabbit did (The rabbit ate carrots). The students are sharing parts of the sentences. They put what something is with what that something does. This is a great way to incorporate the two parts of a sentence. The children take turns adding in the parts of the sentences together. 

 First, name something (wagon). then tell what the wagon does. The wagon rolled away. Remember to place a capital at the beginning of the sentence. The teacher then reminds students to put the appropriate punctuation at the end of the sentences. 

In order to expand their thinking, the teacher explains that you can add where into the sentences. The students were very involved in the learning process and really learned about the parts of sentences by collaborating with others.