Getting children to write is one of my passions. That is why I started the annual Young Authors Day at our school over 10 years ago. Another of my loves is wordless books – they are so great for language development. One of my fundraising activities this summer is a Story Writing class. This class… More Story Writing
It was another fun week in our library. I am winding down our Caldecott unit – finished it this week with most of the classes. With my kinder classes we watched Aaron Becker’s trailer of Journey We then worked our way through the picture book, stopping to discuss what was happening on each page. For their… More Week by Week Series – Week 22
This was another week of exploring the Caldecott titles. I so enjoy sharing these books with my kiddos. This week was especially fun as we did wordless books. For second, third, and fourth grades I used the “Wordless Book Story Chart” worksheet found on the Library Sparks web site. The fifth graders had to fill out my… More Week by Week Series – Week 20