Finally It's Mrs. Gjere!

Mrs. Gjere is our Title I teacher, and she is in and out of our classroom working with students a lot during our days.  Very often after reading the Mystery Reader clues, the class would say, "Oh, it has to be Mrs. Gjere!"  Then she would come walking into our room to work with students, and we'd know it wasn't her.  I thought that Mrs. Gjere would be the perfect finale!

The 3rd clue really threw the class for a loop: "I biked across the United States when I was 23 years old."  Nobody guessed Mrs. Gjere, but a few students thought maybe their parents had secret biking lives they hadn't shared with their children!  When Mrs. Gjere came into the room, they had to think about it for a second before they realized Mrs. Gjere was really their Mystery Reader!

We spent a lot of time discussing her biking trip; the kids found this fascinating!  Mrs. Gjere did an awesome job helping the kids make inferences as she read "Willoughby and the Lion."