Happy Spring Break! School's out, and the relaxing begins! However, before I can relax, I have an important job to do: tallying the 1st and 2nd graders' California Young Reader Medal votes. Then I have to submit our votes online to the CYRM website. We'll find out which book wins the award in May. Here is how Alisal voted. A pretty big landslide, I'd say. Now we just have to see how the rest of the kids across California felt about the books!
Friday, March 27, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Who Loves Mac Barnett (the author)??!!
Hello all you Alisal Bears! Last Thursday was such an exciting day for the library. Mr. Mario arrived with a dolly full of books -- brand new books for the students to read. I can't wait to get these awesome books checked out to kids in the next few days! I took a few home to try out with my own kids over the weekend. We all loved Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett. Watch the trailer for book here:
Obviously, the first reason to love it is how funny it is! Lots of giggles from both kids and myself as we read through it. But lots of books are funny, right? What I also enjoyed was the fact that it highlighted the importance of the illustrator in making a picture book what it becomes. Reading this book makes me think of many questions about authors and illustrators and how they work together… Like, do they get to pick each other? What if they don't like the other's work?
This is the third book by Mac Barnett that I have read in the Alisal Library that I have loved. The other two are Count the Monkeys (recommended to me by Franke in Room14) and Guess Again, which was loved by all the first grade classes back in January.
And we also received President Taft is Stuck in the Bath and Sam and Dave Dig a Big Hole. I haven't read them yet but I'm sure I'll be cracking up yet again! We'll be having some fun reading Mac Barnett's books after Spring Break!
Obviously, the first reason to love it is how funny it is! Lots of giggles from both kids and myself as we read through it. But lots of books are funny, right? What I also enjoyed was the fact that it highlighted the importance of the illustrator in making a picture book what it becomes. Reading this book makes me think of many questions about authors and illustrators and how they work together… Like, do they get to pick each other? What if they don't like the other's work?
This is the third book by Mac Barnett that I have read in the Alisal Library that I have loved. The other two are Count the Monkeys (recommended to me by Franke in Room14) and Guess Again, which was loved by all the first grade classes back in January.
And we also received President Taft is Stuck in the Bath and Sam and Dave Dig a Big Hole. I haven't read them yet but I'm sure I'll be cracking up yet again! We'll be having some fun reading Mac Barnett's books after Spring Break!
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Alisal Read-A-Thon
Woo hoo!!! It's the Alisal Read-A-Thon!!
The Read-A- Thon promotes a love of reading and improves literacy while raising funds for PTA sponsored programs, such as the Multi-Purpose Room upgrade, in-class Technology, BOOKS, and more. Students can challenge themselves to see how many minutes they can read in this period and then collect pledges in support of their efforts! The Read-A-Thon will end on Wednesday, March 18th. So let's get reading!! Stop by the library at morning recess if you need to stock up on new books! Go Bears!
The Read-A- Thon promotes a love of reading and improves literacy while raising funds for PTA sponsored programs, such as the Multi-Purpose Room upgrade, in-class Technology, BOOKS, and more. Students can challenge themselves to see how many minutes they can read in this period and then collect pledges in support of their efforts! The Read-A-Thon will end on Wednesday, March 18th. So let's get reading!! Stop by the library at morning recess if you need to stock up on new books! Go Bears!
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