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Friday, November 13, 2015

Book Fair Day by Lynn Plourde

The Book Fair will be here next week!
There are two copies of this book in Central Perk!


Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Only Good Can Come From This

 
Books Clubs are underway in 5th grade with these awesome new books! 
 
Only good can come from this.
 
 
 
 
Are you implementing Book Clubs this year? 
 
Hmmm....something to think about....(wink, wink)

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Global Read Aloud Update!

Global Read Aloud kicked off this week!!!

Allison and Julie are both reading Fish and connecting with classes through Edmodo and Google Classroom.

Liz and Missy are participating in the author study of Amy Krouse Rosenthal. 

Missy has connected with a class in California and will have the first Skype date tomorrow afternoon!

Liz has connected with a class who lives on an island off Washington state.  You can see the picture of their ferry hanging up in the hallway display by the 2nd grade classrooms.  So cool!

It's not too late if you would like to join it!

See my previous post for details about which books have been chosen and see me for help getting connected with other schools!

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Read With the World!!!!

Global Read Aloud

Check out this great opportunity to connect with the world as you read a great book aloud!
 
www.theglobalreadaloud.com

Here is a brief background of Global Read Aloud.
 
 
 
Julie and Allison have already read Fish In A Tree to their classes (and I believe they highly recommend it!).
 
Liz and Missy will be joining the author study on Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  Many of her books are waiting for you in Central Perk.
 
I'd love to track down some of the other read alouds and help you get the tech side of this project up and rolling. 
 

Global Read Aloud launches October 5!

 

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The Book With No Pictures

Many of you have seen this book sitting on my table.   It's nearly impossible to not open it. 


 
Check out B.J. Novak reading his own book.


 
You are welcome to borrow it.  Your students will be glad you did.
 
 
 

Thursday, August 27, 2015

A small dose of non-fiction writing

Don't wait until the "expository writing unit" to get your kids writing non-fiction! 
 And maybe....don't' even start with reports.  Try out smaller doses of non-fiction writing.
 
Check out this 2 minute video by one of our favs and get expository writing into your classroom now. 
 
The Q & A format is perfect for the beginning of the year since you haven't taught introductions and conclusions yet. It is also a great way to bring writing into science and social studies.
 
 
 

P.S.  We have the Animals Black and White book plus another one called Animals Camouflage that is written in the same format!

Thursday, August 20, 2015

who wants 'em?

I have 3 Geronimo Stilton books looking for a classroom library to love them! 
Come get 'em!