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Fun Read Aloud for Character Traits

Welcome back for another Book Talk Tuesday! This week I want to share with you an adorable book by Kate Beaton: The Princess and the Pony! Fun Read Aloud for Character Traits! If you have not yet discovered The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton, you need to go out and get it RIGHT NOW! Don’t worry…I’ll wait. This book has it ALL! Warriors, battle, intrigue (new square balls), cozy sweaters, and the cutest, roundest, pony (who has a bit of a farting problem). What more could one want in a book? This is such

Fun Christmas Read-Aloud!

I LOVE reading Christmas stories to my students! Especiall so with this fun Christmas Read-Aloud by Jan Brett: The Animals’ Santa! Fun Christmas Read-Aloud: The Animal’s Santa! The Animals’ Santa is beautifully illustrated Christmas Story just like all of Jan Brett’s books! It is a story of Little Snow and his brother discussing the Animals’ Santa. Little Snow is not sure that he believes that there is an Animals’ Santa who brings all of the animals gifts at Christmas. My kiddos really enjoyed this story! When we finished reading, we did a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the Animals’ Santa with

Christmas Read Aloud

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So, it is time to talk about a fun Christmas Read Aloud! Book Talk Tuesday today is about a great Christmas read aloud: Rock Star Santa by Gayle C. Krause. This is a fun rhyming book about one kid’s dream about a-rockin’ Christmas Eve concert starring Santa and his Rockin’ Reindeer! This is a great book to talk about making predictions, endings, and even a little letter writing! I have made a fun bookmark reading response to go with this gem. On the front, your students can create their own

Pumpkin Math Fun: How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

It’s that time of year again! Pumpkin Math time! This super engaging, hands-on, inquiry-based math activity is one of our favorites! I have a great book suggestion and a freebie for you! We start by doing estimates with our pumpkins: How much does it weight? What is its circumference? How long is the pumpkin’s stem? How many seeds do you think are inside? We record these on our sheets with a thin marker or crayon before we start. This helps with changing our estimates when we learn the real answer. 😉 Then, we start our pumpkin math investigations working on

Increase Reading Engagement with Book Picnics!

I have a problem. I am addicted to children’s books! I love children’s books. I believe that I have a pretty good classroom library (it wraps most of the way around my classroom). But, with so many books, some of the best ones sometimes get put away and never get read because they aren’t as easy to get to, or not as visible as others. So, how do I get those great books out and noticed? Of course, I read aloud, every day, several times a day (I have a blog post about how I distribute those books

Mentor Text Link Up! Happy International Children’s Book Day!

I am linking up with Collaboration Cuties for their Mentor Text linky! I love children’s books and what a better day to do it than on International Children’s book day? I love this book! Of course, I love pretty much anything by Chris Van Allsberg! It is about a farmer who accidentally hits a man with his truck. He brings the man home. The Stranger doesn’t speak, but enjoys his time with the farmer and his family. The strange thing is, summer seems to be going on for n extra long time! I cheated a little on the One

Family Reading Night!

Friday was our second annual Family Reading Night at school. I was on the committee last year, but this year I was was asked to head the committee. I was a little nervous, but I said that I would do it! I must confess that I lost some sleep over the whole thing, but it turned out to be a lot of fun! We had some great volunteer readers: Two wonderful teachers from a local pre-school (they got to see a lot of “alumni”!), two K-9 police officers with their dogs, a soccer coach (who did some great soccer

Reading Engagement Idea!

One of my very favorite parts of teaching is reading aloud to the kiddos. The number one Reading Engagement Idea that I use in my classroom is reading aloud great books! I always try to pick a story that moves me as well as them. I have a really awesome group of “story kiddos” this year. No matter how they behave the rest of the day, they are good as gold when I read a story! That being said, I read a lot! At the end of my amazing read-aloud, the kiddos always want the book that I have read.

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