Grading Worksheets & Reading Aloud

The 3rd graders finished up their computer catalog worksheets today, so I spent some time looking over them. To my delight, a lot of them did really well. Now they seem excited to be able to use the catalog–so much so they were lining up to get a shot at the one computer that’s designated for catalog use. (Jody and I had to tell them they could log in and use the other computers, too). I may sound a little crazy saying this, but it both warms and chills my heart to see the little ones going to the catalog instead of casually wandering the shelves. Obviously, it’s good for them to have catalog searching skills, but it also means they’re growing out of their openness to serendipity and caprice. Sigh.

This afternoon I read Toot & Puddle to both 2nd grade classes. I also recommended all the other Holly Hobbie books Bush has and a book by her kids Jocelyn and Nathaniel. (Isn’t it interesting that her kids ended up writing picture books, too?) Theirs is called Priscilla and the Pink Planet. It’s very Dr. Seuss in its illustrations and the rhyming text. I liked it.

Because there was some interest in fractured fairy tales, I pulled John Scieszka’s The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. Jody also pulled Sleeping Bunny, Kate and the Beanstalk, and some others.  When we were out of fractured fairy tale options, I showed some girls the Tall Tales display I made for the fourth graders and they snatched some book off of that.

Popular right now @ Bush (from my perspective anyway):

• A to Z Mysteries
• Amelia’s Notebook
• Star Wars
• Football
• Ivy and Bean
• Fluffy