Book Review

Over Winter Recess, I spent a lot of time on Pinterest and found a great book for New Year's Resolutions to read to my little ones. I was quite excited until I discovered not one of our bookstores had it in stock. Thanks to Lory and her really cool Amazon ordering capabilities she ordered it for me (because I found it the last day of our break).

My family decided to make one last run to the "big" city, and I thought I would check one more bookstore. It wasn't there, but I found this:

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It was just too perfect, I HAD to get it. I thought I might try and do a snowman brace (we ran out of time and ended up doing this). But it not only talked about snowmen, but goes through all the seasons AND the water cycle. Talk about integration! And to top it off, my little ones loved it! This is a definite do again.

Jumstart's Read for the Record

Today our class participated in Jumpstart's Read for the Record.

 This year's book was "llama, llama red pajama" by Anna Dwedney. It was fun to be part of such a large undertaking. I really enjoyed sharing this book with the kids. It is so lyrical, and each kid can easily connect with baby llama. Think about participating next year.

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October Read Aloud

One of my favorite books is:

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 It isn't a "Halloween" or "October" book, but the line drawings definetly lends itself to the season. I did a fun comprehension lesson from ReadWriteThink once with this book where the kids had to summarize the book with one word. It was work finding that one word. It also has a great moral story.