This was an unusual week for our school district as we were closed on Tuesday and Thursday due to the weather. That meant that I did not get to meet with the students at Cove all week! Luckily, Mrs. Benz sent me some photos!
This week in the younger grades at Neil Cummins we read and discussed Hoot and Peep by Lita Judge. The students appreciated the gorgeous illustrations in this book as well as the nonsense songs of Peep. It is a lovely book for siblings, but conveys to all the idea accepting everyone's own way of seeing the world.
In keeping with the theme of acceptance and being one's self, we enjoyed Todd Parr's book Just Be Who You Are. Parr's colorful artwork and message of acceptance is loved by all.
Be who you are!
Be proud of where you're from.
Be a different color. Speak your language.
Wear everything you need to be you.
This week in the younger grades at Neil Cummins we read and discussed Hoot and Peep by Lita Judge. The students appreciated the gorgeous illustrations in this book as well as the nonsense songs of Peep. It is a lovely book for siblings, but conveys to all the idea accepting everyone's own way of seeing the world.
In keeping with the theme of acceptance and being one's self, we enjoyed Todd Parr's book Just Be Who You Are. Parr's colorful artwork and message of acceptance is loved by all.
Be who you are!
Be proud of where you're from.
Be a different color. Speak your language.
Wear everything you need to be you.
We discussed some of the new books we have received recently in the upper grades. We were thrilled to receive Holly Goldberg Sloan's book, Short. Ms. Sloan visited both elementary sites in late October.
We discussed As Brave as You, a new book by by Jason Reynolds who also wrote Ghost and All American Boys. We discussed a number of LInda Sue Park books as we are hoping to arrange for her to visit the elementary schools as part of her book tour this spring. Ms. Park is most known for her Newbery Gold medal winner, A Single Shard. She also wrote A Long Walk to Water, a core literature book in our sixth grade classes.
We discussed As Brave as You, a new book by by Jason Reynolds who also wrote Ghost and All American Boys. We discussed a number of LInda Sue Park books as we are hoping to arrange for her to visit the elementary schools as part of her book tour this spring. Ms. Park is most known for her Newbery Gold medal winner, A Single Shard. She also wrote A Long Walk to Water, a core literature book in our sixth grade classes.