Super Hair-O and the Barber of Doom by John Rocco
Big Bouffant by Kate Hosford
Both books read to: CDC and Pre-K classes
Skills: Compare and Contrast the two stories
These two books are somewhat new to our library this year and since they are all about hair I knew I wanted to pair them together for a read aloud. After reading both books we practiced comparing and contrasting the two stories. When reading it to the first class, just by coincidence I noticed that each of the authors of these books put a picture of themselves on the back cover with the same hairstyle as the character in their story, so this was also really fun to discuss and compare. The kids loved seeing each author's picture, and it lead us into a great discussion as to why the authors wrote these stories. Some questions I heard were. Are the authors really writing about themselves in the story? Is it a true story or a fictional one? Great wonderings!
Ribbit by Rodrigo Folgueria
Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great by Bob Shea
Both Books Read to: Kinder and Primer
Skills: Discussing other's differences and friendship
With our Kinder an Primer classes we focused on the theme of friendship and accepting others' differences. In Ribbit! the pig continues to say the word Ribbit because he is trying to fit in and make new friends. However, the frogs of the pond don't get it, until he leaves to find other friends.
In Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great the goat just assumes he doesn't like the unicorn and thinks the unicorn is just showing off. However, he soon realizes that he he really likes unicorn as he gets to know him. Both were great books in reminding the kids about our differences, taking the time to get to know one another, and how to be a good friend to everyone.
Good News, Bad News by Jeff Mack
Read to: First Grade
Skills: Making Predictions and drawing conclusions
In First Grade we continued to practice the skills of making a prediction and drawing conclusions. Last week we focused on two books that only used one word throughout to tell the story and this book was the same. This book is also written by one of last weeks' authors, Jeff Mack. As we read it together we took turns really studying the pictures on each page, making inferences, and then predicting what we thought would happen next. The kids are great at this skill and they always notice something that I had never seen or even thought about! They are so clever! With this book we also discussed that it could be used to practice the skill of cause and effect, and it also taught a lesson about the importance of staying positive. So all in all I give this book a big thumbs up!
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by Joseph H. Hopkins
Read to: 3rd Grade
Skills: Celebrating Women's History Month, and discovering genre.
With 3rd grade this week we focused on March being Women's History Month. I decided to share this new book to our collection. This story focuses on a woman named Katherine Olivia Sessions and how she changed the city of San Diego, California. "After becoming the first woman to graduate from the University of California with a degree in science, she took a job as a teacher far south in the dry desert town of San Diego. Where there were almost no trees. Kate decided that San Diego needed trees more than anything else. So this trailblazing young woman singlehandedly started a massive movement that transformed the town into the green, garden-filled oasis it is today. Now, more than 100 years after Kate first arrived in San Diego, her gorgeous gardens and parks can be found all over the city."
After reading this book we had a great discussion about staying strong and following your dreams.
Obert Skye author study with 4th grade.
Next week author Obert Skye will be visiting our school to speak with the 4th graders and middle school kids. So this week in class we did a small author study. We viewed the books he has written, read a little about him, watched a few trailers to get excited about his books, and wrote down any questions we wanted to be sure to ask him. Not many of our kids were familiar with Obert, but after learning about him, his books were flying off of the shelves! We look forward to meeting him!
Obert Skye's First book in the Leven Thumps series: Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
And finally, I just had to share this photo. For the 3rd and 4th grade
classes that won the Bluebonnet party for reading the most books, one of
the door prizes we gave out was a coupon in which you could become the
"librarian for the day." So here is the lucky third grader that was
super excited to cash in her coupon and check out her classmates' books.
She did a super job and had fun! Maybe we should have a librarian for the day more often?!
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