Oak Hollow Sept 07

School: Oak Hollow Elementary
Month/Year: Sept. 2007

Recommended Read-a-loud:

Title: Teeny Weeny Bop
Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Grades: K - 2

Title: Fancy Nancy
Author: Jane O’Connor
Grades: K - 2

Pair and Share Topic: Pets
Grades: 3 - 6
Titles/Authors used:
Wackiest White House Pets 636.088 DAV
First Pets 636.088 FUQ
Natures Children (new series of books, showed several from 636 section)
Rabbits 636.9 WEG
Everything Horse 636.1 CRI
Everything Cat 636.8 CRI
Where the Red Fern Grows FIC RAW
Rascal 921 NOR

Comments: We chose this topic because we had several new books on pets. Everyone could relate to having or caring for a pet. We limited comments from the students who had dogs and cats. We took a few comments from students who had unique pets.

Pair and Share Topic: Indians
Grades: 3 -6
Titles/Authors used:
The Buffalo and the Indians 978.004 PAT
And Still the Turtle Watched E MAC
The Navajo Years 979.1004 FLO
The Unbreakable Code E HUN
Meet Kaya FIC SHA
The Utes 978.004 FLA
The Cheyenne 978.004 LIM
D is for Drum 970.004 SHO

Comments: We used this topic to highlight some new books on Indians and particularly the one on the Buffalo and the Indians. There are over 500 tribes of American Indians. We talked about the Navajo language as one that has no alphabet and made history with the unbreakable code during WWII. Fifth grade has a unit on Indians.