Sprucewood

Title:  “ The Maze of Bones”  (39 Clues Series)                    

Author:  Rick Riordan

Grade Level:  4-6

 

We told a little bit about Grace Cahill, matriarch of the Cahills, who are the world’s most powerful family.  On her deathbed she changes her will, leaving her descendents an impossible decision.  39 clues are hidden around the world that can reveal the family’s secret, but no one has been able to assemble them.  The clues race is on!  We read the first short chapter and the kids were mesmerized…can’t wait to get book #1!

 

Title:  “Dirt On My Shirt”

Author:  Jeff Foxworthy

Grade Level:  All

 

We highlighted a couple of the books from our book fair, including this one.  It is filled with hilarious poems and really cute art.  The kids really enjoyed it and wanted me to keep reading more of the poems.

Draper Elementary

Title: I Am Invited To A Party.
Kindergarten
The students loved this book. They thought it was funny how they just kept adding the clothes on top of the other party clothes.

Title: Marsupial Sue
Author: John Lithgow
all grades
This book was alot of fun. It has the CD with it. The book went along with our theme:Where in the World. We went to Australia this month and we talked about all the animals there. We talked about the animals that are marsupial.
We did lessons for first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth grades.

Oak Hollow Elementary

Media Activity for November  2009

Recommended Read-a-louds for all grades

Title/Author: Thanksgiving in the White House by Gary Hines

We have been talking up our historical fiction picture books and this one lent itself perfectly to the holiday this month. 

For the youngest classes we simply read the story and talked about favorite holiday foods.  The older classes 3 – 6 got the history behind the story.  All classes knew that Abraham Lincoln was our 16^th president!! However, none of them knew that it was Abe who made Thanksgiving a national holiday amidst the dark times of the Civil War.  The back of the book gives details of the president’s life and also the Civil War.  5th and 6^th graders are most interested in this.  Everyone appreciated the antics of the president’s youngest son, Tad.  After reading the story we read the page in the back of the book that tells “about the story” and how young Tad once hitched up his pet goats to a chair and ran them through the White House, upsetting a gathering of dignified ladies.  

Oak Hollow Elementary

 

FW: Willow Springs Elementary

For Veterans' Day we chose for the upper grades the book, America's White Table. This books tells about honoring our veterans. We placed on our door a poster that students could write the names of relatives that were veterans. As a heading we said that these are veterans of Willow Springs' students. The students were very interested in signing the names of their relatives. Most noted under the name the branch of service for that relative. Some even put several names and noted their relationship- grandpa, uncle, etc.