Summer Reading

I've been doing a lot of reading over the summer.  I'm reading books being considered for the 2012-2013 Iowa Children's Choice Award and the Iowa Goldfinch Award.  I'm finding some great books to recommend to students coming back this fall.
My favorites so far...

Younger Students
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic by Robert Burleigh
Great historical fiction picture book about Amelia Earhart!

Ant and Grasshopper by Luli Gray
A new version of the old fable.  Great illustrations!

E-mergency by: Tom Lichtenheld
A really cute story about the letter E who breaks his leg and can't be included in words anymore.  Other letters try to fill in for him.  It's cute for an adult or older reader to read with a younger one.  So many great side comments! We have this in the Orchard Hill Library!

Can You Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas
Such a cute interactive book!  Fun for all ages!

Press Here by Herve Tullett
Another great interactive book and one we have in our Orchard Hill Library!

We Are in a Book! by Mo Willems
A great Elephant and Piggie book!  It's laugh out loud funny and emerging readers would love this book!  We have a copy in the Orchard Hill Library too!

These are my picks for younger readers, check back tomorrow for some great books for older students!

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April Genre Challenge

Congratulations to Mrs. Canady's Class for winning the Genre Challenge for April! They had a total of 13 points.  Second place was Mr. Halvorson's Class with 6 points, and third place was Ms. Hewett's Class with 3 points.  The genre for May is Award Winners.  These are current or old Children's Choice books, Newberry winners, or other award winning books.
Thanks!

March Genre Challenge

Congratulations to Mrs. Canady's Class for winning the Genre Challenge for March!  They were the ONLY class to participate and had 18 points!  Nice job!  The genre for April is Poetry.  I have some novels written in verse, but I will also count poetry books with one or more poems in the book.

Thanks!

January and February Genre Challenge

*I realized I never sent out the January results so both are here :)

Congratulations to Ms. Rindels' class for winning in January and Mrs. Shaw's class for winning February.  Our numbers declined a little these past few months, but I think more people are reading then are filling out the forms.  Both 3rd grades will receive popcorn parties! March's genre is fantasy/science fiction.  

All January and February results:

3R - Jan -22 (11 participants) Feb - 4 - (2 participants)

3S - Jan -8 (4 participants) Feb - 15 - (5 participants)

4C - Jan -6 (2 participants) Feb - 4 - (1 participant)

4H - Jan -0 Feb -0

5P - Jan -0 Feb -0

5T - Jan -0 Feb -0

6H - Jan -0 Feb -0

6S - Jan -0 Feb -0

December Genre Challenge Winners

Once again we had quite the battle this month!  Congratulations to Mrs. Schwab's class for winning in December.  Our students read 231 books! Mrs. Schwab's class will receive their popcorn party in January.  January's genre is classic books.  I consider a classic anything that has lasted two generations :)  If students are unsure, have them check with me :)

All December results:

3R -72 (12 participants)

3S - 26 (6 participants)

4C - 4 (1 participant)

4H -2 (1 participant)

5P - 11 (3 participants)

5T - 0

6H - 0

6S - 116! (25 participants)

November Genre Challenge Winners

We had quite the battle this month!  Congratulations to Mrs. Canady's class for winning in November.  However, all 12 books were read by ONE student!  This calls for a slight rule change.  Because I want this to be a class competition the new rule is on top of earning one point for each book read, the class also gets one point for each participant.  This rule goes into affect for the December challenge.  Due to the close race I have awarded popcorn parties to both 4th grade classes.  December's genre is non-fiction.

All results:

3R - 8

3S - 4

4C - 12 (1 participant)

4H -11 (5 participants)

5P - 0

5T - 0

6H - 1

6S - 1