We've had a few cheers and jeers so far this week during Library.
Let's start with the Jeers, shall we?
I decided to have my fifth graders create spine poetry with Newbery award-winning titles as a sort of poetry/Newbery unit mashup. Meh. The problem was that limiting students to the Newbery titles limited their creativity. Here were two of my favorites, however:
Lessons Learned: Next time allow students to choose books from the entire library collection.
There were more Cheers this week, however. My students LOVED LOVED LOVED...
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| There Goes Ted Williams - Written and Illustrated by Matt Tavares |
and so did I! LOVED this book by Matt Tavares! A great read for celebrating opening day or any day.
And finally, to coordinate with their animal unit, I did this Animal Mystery activity with my kindergarteners and the book A STICKLER ON STILTS: A ZOO ANIMAL MYSTERY. I revealed each clue as I read each page and the students would tell me what they thought and why. The kids loved it and all their hands were waving frantically right before they told me the answer!
Did you have any Cheers or Jeers this week?
I'm going to do spine poetry with the books I weeded. I have about 1000 novels that haven't been checked out since the school opened 10 years ago. I'm going to put baskets of them out and see what we come up with.
ReplyDeleteSeems like a great idea, since then they do not have to be reshelved. How funny will it be if students want to check out a bunch of your weeded books!? : )
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