Thunder Cake!

Wednesday Ridgeview experienced an enormous BOOOOOM! CRASSSSHHHH! We had a great amount of thunder. The noise shook the building and caused some excitement. The intermediate grades had to leave their recess and go indoors. In room 4 we read Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco. We learned to start counting the seconds after you see a lightning flash, 1...2...3...4...5... and that is how many miles away the storm is! We don't need to be afraid, we can be happy knowing we have time to walk inside to wait out the storm. I reminded my students that Ms. Polacco is the little girl in the book, and her grandmother really did make her a "Thunder Cake"! Happy baking!