Preparing for Tammi Sauer's Visit

Our school is preparing for an amazing author visit! I have been reading two or three books per class per week for the last 2-3 weeks and talking about the plot, lesson, and characters in the stories. Students are in love with the books!

We had an author visit from Nikki Loftin last week, and I will post about that as soon as I have time. I just wanted to post a few cute pictures that students have made for Tammi's visit.

Here are a few!

I hope you all enjoyed the pictures! I'll write about Tammi's visit some time next week. It's going to be AWESOME!!!

Duck! Rabbit! GRA15 Rosenthal Author Study

Our library is taking part in the Global Read Aloud this month by doing an author study on author, Amy Krouse Rosenthal. We are reading books by Ms. Rosenthal and learning about things like point of view and perspective.

We compared the book Duck! Rabbit!, with a Mo Willems book, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, to determine "who's telling the story?", and from whose perspective the story is being told.

After we read both books, and discussed point of view and perspective, students were given white boards and markers and asked to draw which animal they thought was portrayed in the book, Duck! Rabbit!, and to tell which animal they thought the character was (duck or rabbit) by using the text in the book. Here are some great pictures of them at work!

Kinder Learning in the Library

Kindergarten students have been reviewing their letters and letter sounds in the library the last week or so. We have sung the "ABC" song, read a book called Al Pha's Bet, and even formed some letters with our bodies! Here are some pictures to show the letters!

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

That's as far as we had time to go! The kiddos really enjoyed singing and figuring out how to make a letter with their body!