Book Fair Week in Review

Week in Review

This week was our Scholastic Book Fair which generates a ton of money for library books. Our PTO works tirelessly to make a spectacular event. Since the book fair is in the library, we have library time in the classroom. The great thing about this is that we get more time to explore literature which helps students build their literacy and writing skills and inspires many to choose these and similar books for their personal reading in the future. Read about our week below.

K: We finished up our Mo Willems unit by reading Knuffle Bunny Free. Students were given a new location that Knuffle Bunny traveled to and wrote about it.

Grade 1: We continued our exploration of stories with chicken characters. Last week we read Interrupting Chicken and described two of the characters. This week we read The Adventures of Louise the Chicken and wrote about something Louise did in the story.

Grade 2: We continued reading and discussing fables. We read Aesop’s The Monkey and the Camel and a “modern” fable, Dr. Seuss’s Gertude McFuzz. Students compared what was the same and different about the two fables.

Grade 3: We began our biography puppet project. We started by talking about how to find biographies in the library, and read and compared two environmentalist biographies, The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau and Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa.

Grade 4: We began our folktales from around the world shadow puppet project. We read a sample folktale, Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza, filled out a thinking map about the story, and came up with ideas on how we could transform it into script format.

Grade 5: We began reading stories about mermaids to inform and inspire students before they begin their mermaid art project. We read an adapted version of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. In the coming weeks, we will compare that with Robert San Souci’s Sukey and the Mermaid and Nicholas Pipe.