Oak Hollow - November

School: Oak Hollow
Month/Year: November, 2007


Recommended Read-a-loud or Book-talk books:

Title: Underline one: K-2 3-6 All Grades
Title/Author: Pancakes for Supper by Anne Isaacs
(This is a retelling of the 1899 tall tale “Little Black Sambo” by Bannerman)

Title/Author: Title/Author: Would I lie to you? By Caralyn Buehner

Pair and Share Topic: Cooking

Titles/Authors used: Underline one: K-2 3-6 All Grades
Cooking USA by Orcutt and Margolies
Thundercake by Polacco
All in Just One Cookie by Goodman
Cool Meals to start your wheels by Wagner
Breakfast Blast by Kalman
Birthday Cakes for Kids by Web
Just for Kids by Web
Everything on a waffle by Horvath
Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats by So
Fannie in the Kitchen by Hopkinson
Christmas Gifts good enough to eat by Purdy

We talked about safety when cooking in the kitchen because we had some food safety bookmarks to give out afterwards. Most of the students have cooked and enjoyed seeing all the books we have with recipes in them. We have quite a few cookbooks but also there are recipes in many holiday books and picture books and even fiction.

Pair and Share Topic: Biographies
Titles/Authors used: Underline one: K-2 3-6 All Grades

Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa by Layden
Steven Spielberg by Meachum
If You Give an Author a Pencil by Numeroff
Oprah Winfrey by Hudak
Basher 5-2 by O’Grady, Scott
Kate Shelley by San Souci

We explained the changes in numbering of this section from 92 to 921 and reviewed with all what a biography and an autobiography is. We showed examples of several interesting books that make this section exciting to explore (when I was their age, I told them, biographies were boring!). I explained how the dewey number appears on the call tag above the 1st 3 letters in the last name of the person the book is about. We reinforced this by asking students to guess the call number for each of the books we had to show. (921 NUM, 921 WIN, 921 SPI, etc.)