An excellent read aloud potential if you’re looking for an interactive read aloud around the topic of creativity and imagination!
Here’s a Sneak Peek:
Writer’s Workshop – Mentor Texts
Are you looking for a new mentor text to kick of writer’s workshop or inspire writers? This year there are two 2016 Sakura Picture Book selections that I think will meet this need.
Don’t Be A Bad Kitty
During library lessons we’ve been talking about being responsible library patrons. This Bad Kitty bookmark sums up a lot of our conversations about book care. Next week in the library there will be a Bookmark Challenge. Students will be encouraged to design their own bookmarks and if they feel they have a really outstanding bookmark, enter their bookmark in a design challenge contest. All bookmarks in the design challenge will be due by October 9th.
Organizing the Bookshelf
What Kind of Reader Are You Today?
Source: http:// tomgauld.com
Wild Readers Have Favorites
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ppev_6ufYoECZ1cY1dHYgKGNyT8ILY6koT35ng8MWSk/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000
(Click here to view presentation.)
Books Are Arranged
Books are arranged by call number…alphabetically by author’s last name.
Arrange the following call numbers in the correct order by author.
Gr. 4 Book Bingo
Realistic Fiction – Rules by Cynthia Lord
Rules is the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Catherine, who is torn between caring for her autistic brother David and doing what she really wants to do during summer break.
Mystery – Swindle by Gordon Korman
If you like books about kids taking matters into their own hands, you’ll enjoy this fast-paced mystery. After being “swindled”, Griffin Bing and his team will do just about anything to get back his Babe Ruth baseball card.
Adventure – Magic Pickle and the Planet of the Grapes by Scott Morse
A lunchtime accident in the lab creates the Magic Pickle, the perfect superhero, ready to save the world from all sorts of bad guys and fight for truth and justice!
Fantasy – I Freddy: Book One in the Golden Hamster Saga by Dietlof Reiche
Freddy is not an ordinary hamster. Freddy is a thinking, talking, reading, writing hamster. In order to get out of the pet store, Freddy must come up with a plan. What will Freddy do to get out of the cage that is holding him back? If you have never picked up the first book in this series, give it a try if you like Fantasy and Humor.
The Joy of Books
Do Not Read This
What would your day be like if you didn’t know how to read?
You’re not going to believe it, but I have the reading challenge to beat all other reading challenges for you…
I CHALLENGE YOU TO NOT READ FOR AN ENTIRE DAY.
