Welcoming students for the past two weeks has included a little old fashioned magazine collage. We made bookmarks showing some of our favorite things to read. I also encouraged them to add things they might want to read about this year. We used old magazines, crayons and and glue. (Glitter would have been nice, but not nice to our books so alas, we skipped it)
Let’s see if we can make these last enough to use them to guide our choices as we browse for new books this month!
I’m sharing a little session at Hays Launch on why I think we need more educators blogging about their experiences as teachers and learners. I’d also love to see more students sharing their words with the real world. If you blog share your link in the comments so I can visit you! Click on the slide below for a link to the presentation.
Ironically, when I wanted to jot some notes about this book for my review, my pencil lead was broken. Pencils, and the search for them are exactly how Ava finds the most important writing implement of her life. As she is preparing for school and a math test, Ava finds a blue pencil in her junk drawer at home. She grabs it for her looming test not knowing that the pencil holds to answers to almost every question she might have. But even pencils with answers can’t last forever. As she overuses the pencil she wears down both the tip and the illusion that she will be able to always find the answer she needs. Librarians and people who love them will find this book a funny surprise.
the big green bookshelf 