What's Up?

What are your students doing in library classes?

2/3s:
Charles/Suzanne/Betty’s class are working through the George and Martha stories, by James Marshall. Patti/Sara/Deb’s class had fun participating in a reading of: Let’s Play in the Forest While the Wolf is Not Around, by Claudia Rueda.

4/5s:
Dorrey and Andrea’s class got involved in the Rotten Ralph stories by Jack Gantos, based on a real-life cat. Sarah and Alice’s class have been sampling books on babies and growing up. Amanda’s and Kristi’s class has been questioning gender stereotypes and we have been helping by reading fairy tales such as Princess Knight by Cornelia Funke and Kate and the Beanstalk by Mary Pope Osborne.

6/7s:
Val and Chelsea’s class have been reading the book, Rosy Cole’s Worst Ever, Best Yet Tour of New York City by Sheila Greenwald to support their realistic fiction and mapping units in school. Patricia and Sarah’s class have just started a biography on Ida B, Wells-Barnet, a famous African-American journalist from the 1800s, to support their newspaper theme.

8/9s:
Both classes are finishing up their science/library joint project on biographies of scientists and inventors, culminating with PowerPoint presentations. We are also reading The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis and I am thrilled that some students have checked the book out in other venues to read ahead.