Have you seen the World Read Aloud Day website (http://www.litworld.org/wrad/). I visited there a couple weeks ago and found their Classroom kit. It has a page of 7 Strengths Countdown. I have been using it to select books for my PK-2 reading time for the last few weeks. I always have students answer a question or make a comment about the book before they go to check out book. (It is also a way to keep from having the whole class hit the shelves at the same time.)
Here are the topics and the books I chose to read.
Curiosity:
Press Here (Tullet)
Tillie and the wall (Lionni)
Curious George at the airport (Rey)
How could you not have at least one of these! I first read about Curious George in my second or third grade reader.
Friendship:
Dear Little fish (Dahan)
Wallace's List (Bottner)
Laura's Star (Baumgart)
Little Gorilla (Bornstein)
I skipped Frog and Toad, but those books are great, too.
Kindness:
Knuffle Bunny too (Willems)
Rechenka's Eggs (Polacco)
Horton hears a who (Seuss).
I have been trying to read some different books not just my old favorites and this has been a way to branch out.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Sunday, January 10, 2016
New Year, time to restart my blog.
I joined #SixtyBooks in 2016 - The goal is to read 60 books this year. My daughter, Jennifer says that the picture books I read for story time don't count. You can join by going to this website - http://sixtybooks.com/sixtybooks-in-2016/
I read a trilogy to begin this adventure. It is The Irish Heart Series by Juliet Gauvin. The first book, The Irish Cottage: Finding Elizabeth. Devastated after the death of her great-aunt Mags, who raised her, Elizabeth Lara leaves her life as a top San Francisco divorce attorney and goes to a cottage in Ireland. Through letters left to her by her aunt she discovers the truth about her parents that had been kept from her for thirty-five years. Through the letter, Connor Bannon (the owner of the cottage) and the towns people of Dingle, Ireland, Elizabeth begins to rediscover herself.
Book 2 The London Flat: Second Chances. Elizabeth meets old friends she hasn't had contact with since her college days. Connor Bannon has followed her to London. Will the romance with Connor continue or will it be a friend from the past? She also has a quest, to find Mags' lover, Matthieu, and share the letter Mags left for him.
Book 3 The Paris Apartment: Fated Journey completes the trilogy. Many "journeys" including Elizabeth's journey to find herself come to completion in Paris. There are even a few surprises in the final book that were only hinted at in the first two.
Three down. Reading October Sky and Strike Three You're Dead.
Picture books read this week:
Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
SkippyJon Jones, Snow What by Judith Schachner
Don’t let the pigeon stay up late by Mo Willems
Shiver me letters: a pirate ABC by June Sobel
I joined #SixtyBooks in 2016 - The goal is to read 60 books this year. My daughter, Jennifer says that the picture books I read for story time don't count. You can join by going to this website - http://sixtybooks.com/sixtybooks-in-2016/
I read a trilogy to begin this adventure. It is The Irish Heart Series by Juliet Gauvin. The first book, The Irish Cottage: Finding Elizabeth. Devastated after the death of her great-aunt Mags, who raised her, Elizabeth Lara leaves her life as a top San Francisco divorce attorney and goes to a cottage in Ireland. Through letters left to her by her aunt she discovers the truth about her parents that had been kept from her for thirty-five years. Through the letter, Connor Bannon (the owner of the cottage) and the towns people of Dingle, Ireland, Elizabeth begins to rediscover herself.
Book 2 The London Flat: Second Chances. Elizabeth meets old friends she hasn't had contact with since her college days. Connor Bannon has followed her to London. Will the romance with Connor continue or will it be a friend from the past? She also has a quest, to find Mags' lover, Matthieu, and share the letter Mags left for him.
Book 3 The Paris Apartment: Fated Journey completes the trilogy. Many "journeys" including Elizabeth's journey to find herself come to completion in Paris. There are even a few surprises in the final book that were only hinted at in the first two.
Three down. Reading October Sky and Strike Three You're Dead.
Picture books read this week:
Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
SkippyJon Jones, Snow What by Judith Schachner
Don’t let the pigeon stay up late by Mo Willems
Shiver me letters: a pirate ABC by June Sobel
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