Spiders Aren’t Spooky if you celebrate with Miss Spider’s Tea Party. In October, we use my spider bitroom to explore both fiction and nonfiction titles about spiders. We culminate our spider reading with a tea party just like Miss Spider! Parents helped us by donating treats and we created mini-donut spiders (edible eyeballs are a hit).
As part of our approach to winter break we enjoyed stories and drawing the gingerbread man. One grade also did a scavenger hunt around the school looking for him as he ran from the classroom to the office… and then back to the classroom where they found a bag of skittles ready to add as buttons for a lucky cookie waiting in the library. Students decorated their gingerbread and shared their favorite version of the books we read about him.
To warm up for the gingerbread activities we used the cocoa and gingerbread bitroom I made a few years ago. A local bakery made us 100 cookies and parents donated the toppings. “Best day ever,” according to one second grader.
This month in the library we roared more than usual, but mostly it was on topic roaring. We read, crafted, sang and stomped like dinosaurs. As always, I made a bitmoji library as a basis of our theme for the month. One of my favorite activities was to read If the Dinosaurs Came Back, then have students create a background and dinosaur in the same style as the illustations. It turned out the be a little challenging for some of them so I helped by printing out dino shapes for the foreground image.
We found great hats to make on the interwebs, and lots of fun dino themed games on pbs kids and abcya for our computer brain break day. We also made a makeshift green screen from butcher paper to practice our dramatic poses in front of scary dinosaurs- easy and free with the DoInk app.
To make a copy of the dinosaur library in google slides click here, to view in presentation mode use: https://bit.ly/bgbsdinovr
the big green bookshelf 