Thank you for your support of our Scholastic Book Fair! This has been the most successful book fair that we have ever hosted!!
In Kindergarten we will read If You Give a Moose A Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff and one of my favorite Eve Bunting books, A Turkey For Thanksgiving with wonderful illustrations by Diane deGroat.
Last week in first grade we met Marc Brown, author and illustrator of the Arthur books. We learned that Mr. Brown hides the names of his children in the illustrations of his books. This week we will read Arthur's Thanksgiving and then we'll take some time to find Tolin, Tucker and Eliza's names in the pictures. We will also read the final chapter of Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon by Cynthia Rylant.
Second graders will be revisiting Dav Pilkey when we read 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. We will also read the very funny book Sometimes It's Turkey-Sometimes It's Feathers by Lorna Balian. The children are always fascinated by the lack of color in the illustrations-just brown, black and white, but still such great pictures!
We are continuing with Native American stories in the third grade. This
week we will discuss pourquoi stories, that is a story that explains why something is the way it is. For example, this week we will learn How Chipmunk Got His Stripes by Joseph and James Bruchac
Who wrote two dozen books? Who wrote hundreds of poems including Mary Had a Little Lamb? And who wrote thousands of letters to many politicians including President Zachary Taylor, President Millard Fillmore, President Franklin Pierce, President James Buchanan until
finally President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a National Holiday? Sarah Hale did! Fourth graders will learn of this ambitious woman in Thank you, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, a distant relative of Sarah Hale's.
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