Book clubs

Friday Highlights

Despite recorder practice in the hallway, we successfully had some silent reading time.

4th grade visited the lego show in the library.

Kaan proudly shared his lego creations.

2 hours of Makey Makey with Mrs. Thomas

Drop Everything And Read with 2nd grade buddies

The Sun! The Sun!

Such a beautiful,warm, sunny day required some outside reading time.

OBOB day 1

Today we had our classroom OBOB challenge in the library with Mrs. H.
Our classroom OBOB winning teams were The Flaming Kitty Cats (Ari, Willa, and Alex) and The Pandacorns (Julian, Owen, Lahna, and Linnea).
They will compete against all 4th and 5th grade teams tomorrow at 9am.

Margaret Haddix Vistis

Today Margaret Haddix visited and talked about her books. Many of us, including myself, had never read her books before and it was a wonderful opportunity to learn about a new series. Everyone in the class left the talk with at least one book we wanted to read. The library has many of her books and will be ordering more!

OBOB Books List

Official Lists for OBOB 2016 3/5 Division

• ·      Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year By, Bill Harley
• ·      Diamond Willow By, Helen Frost
• ·      Escape From Mr. Lemoncello s Library By, Chris Grabenstein
• ·      Flora and Ulysses By, Kate DiCamillo
• ·      How to Train Your Dragon By, Cressida Cowell
• ·      The Lightning Thief By, Rick Riordan
• ·      A Long Walk to Water By, Linda Sue Park
• ·      Mission Unstoppable By, Dan Gutman
• ·      Mountain Dog By, Margarita Engle
• ·      No Talking By, Andrew Clements
• ·      Rooftoppers By, Katherine Rundell
• ·      The Sasquatch Escape By, Suzanne Selfors
• ·      The Shadows By, Jacqueline West
• ·      Shiloh By, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• ·      What Was Ellis Island? By, Patricia Brennan Demuth
• ·      What Was the March on Washington? By, Kathleen Krull

DEAR with Buddies

Today, instead of Chapel, the whole Lower School read. We went to our buddy classrooms and read for 40 minutes. Here are a few pictures from this morning's excitement.

Also, we celebrated Kaan's birthday this afternoon. Here are a few pictures from that celebration. Happy Birthday Kaan.

Last days of fall

We are enjoying these last warm days of fall before the rain starts by reading outside. You can catch us a couple afternoons a week before pick up outside in a tree or hammock, on the stairs or sprawled under a tree deeply immersed in our book of the week.

Responding to Tiger Rising

Students continue to practice taking notes while reading. We are listening to and reading by ourselves chapters from The Tiger Rising to help model and build this practice. Good readers stop and think while reading. They think about larger messages, themes, symbolism and chraacter development. We can use notes on connections, questions, important parts, and inferences to help us find these big ideas in our texts.