Main Idea!

This week we are focusing on the main idea in reading: what the story is mostly about in one-two sentences. 
I Wanna New Room by: Karen Kaufman Orloff
Main Idea: Alex wants a new room to have space from his little brother.  His dad built him his own tree house, but in the end he decided he'd like his brother to join.  
Fish is Fish by: Leo Lionni
Main Idea: The fish and the frog realize that they are different and have to live in different habitats, but they can still be friends. 
Nugget and Fang by: Tammi Sauer/Michael Slack
Main Idea: This story was about a shark, Fang, and a minnow, Nugget, and their friendship.  When Nugget went to school, his minnow friends tried to teach him that sharks are not friends and they are too scary.  Fang ends up saving the school of minnows and they realized not all sharks are bad.
*This is one of Ms. Gegg's most favorite stories!  We had such a good conversation on SO many things from this one book: text-to-text connections, text-to-movie connections, onomatopoeia words, friendship, dialogue/quotation marks, and feelings!  What a fun reading lesson driven by a very engaged Kinder Crew!