It’s Monday! What are you reading?
Sharing reading and learning from the past 2 weeks.
Each week I share at least one reading photo of the week. This one was taken when we went to visit the Grade 3 & 4 class down the hall while they were having Camp Read. Tents, shoes and books everywhere! Every student in my classroom brought along a favourite picture book to share. Nobody Likes a Goblin is being devoured by these two readers.
Our #classroombookaday titles from last week allowed us to have some serious conversations about the world.
Writing was rich. Some students shared some very personal writing connected to their own experiences with leaving their countries because of war. We have started to talk about books as mirrors, windows and sliding glass doors (from Rudine Sims Bishop) and students instantly began to use this language to describe their connections to the books.
We watched a short video of the actual Kunkush, the cat who inspired Lost and Found Cat and students reread the book many times looking at the photographs in the back and having serious discussions.
This week with #classroombookaday, we laughed a lot!
Some of these titles inspired students to create their own retellings!
Which made one author very happy (and flattered)!
“OR ELSE!”
