Granite

School: Granite

Month/Year: February 2008

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

Title: The Cat in the Hat

Author: Dr. Seuss

Topic:

Grades: All

Comments: We celebrated Dr. Seuss’ Birthday early because our Book Fair will be during his birthday

Title: Library Lion

Author: Knusen, Michelle

Topic: Library

Grades: All

Comments: We read the book and voted as classes for the Beehive Award.

Pair and Share Topic:

Grades: All

Titles/Authors used: The Very Smart Pea and the Princess to Be by Mini Grey, Snow White in New York by Fiona French and various other Fractured Fairytales.

Comments: We talked about what a Fractured Fairytale is and then tried to guess what each book was based on. Then we read one of the stories.