Classic Tales of Horror, a pull-the-tab Pop-Up Book, by Terry Oakes

      

Of course for Halloween we had to look at some Tales of Horror.  This book was great for all ages. Most kids love a pop-up book and there is informational text that is more meaningful for the older ones.  Students viewed awesome scary images of some classics and listened to spooky and creepy descriptive key passages from original texts.  They also heard a little historical information about the writing and the author.  For example, there are some really great pop-up movable graphics of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Brom Stoker's Dracula, Washington Irving's  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera.  -

-Georgine, Congress Elemenatary

The Stubborn Pumpkin written by Laura Geringer and illustrated by Holly Berry. In this story, a farmer grows such a large pumpkin that he asks for help harvesting it. One by one his companions fail, including his wife, his daughter, his cow, his dog, and his cat couldn't pull the huge pumpkin off its vine until they were helped by a tiny mouse., then the vine cracks! A fun story story enjoyed our by our E1-3 students.

Paul Dear, GR Montessori

Great Book

Burton Elementary: Two-Fer - Giddy Goat & Big Mean Mike

 This past week at Burton Elementary we read "Big Mean Mike" by Michelle Knudsen in library, and the week before we read "Giddy Goat" by Jamie Rix. Although they seem to be very different stories, one about a timid goat who is afraid of heights and has to learn to be brave, and one about a dog with a tough-guy persona who learns to be okay with having a bit of a soft side, they both teach good lessons about not making assumptions about who can be friends with whom.

If you can measure the popularity of a story by how many kids ask after the read-aloud if they can check the book out themselves, I would say both of these books were a hit with Burton kids. If you enjoy reading books out loud to kids, you can have a lot of fun with the timid goat voice of Giddy and the gruff personality of Big Mean Mike.

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Esta semana en la escuela Burton Elementary leímos el cuento "Big Mean Mike", por Michelle Knudsen, en la biblioteca. La última semana, leímos el cuento "Giddy Goat", por Jamie Rix. A pesar de ellos parecen ser cuentos muy diferentes, los dos ambos tienen buenos mensajes sobre no hacer suposiciones de quienes pueden ser amigos unos con otros.

- Dennis De Boer

  TOMAS AND THE LIBRARY LADY by Pat Mora captured the attention of students at Stocking this week. Tomas is the son of migrant workers, who is befriended by the lady at the library after Papa Grande encourages him to start going to the library. Check out what stories Tomas likes and how he shares them with his family.

~ Deb

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson

Join the witch and her cat, a dog, a frog, and a bird on a NOISY, bumpy, broomstick ride. A story of quick wits and friendship, full of humor and adventure.

Mary/ Coit Creative Arts Academy

Sibley     My Dad by Anthony Brown                      
A story that is told through a little boy's eyes. Dad is capable of anything;  fearless, powerful, strong, wise and loving. It pays homage to remarkable beings- Dads!!~ Mary Jo

SWCC is reading There was an old monster! by Rebecca, Adrian & Ed Emberley

Our Kindergarten class is having fun with this great book.

There was an old monster 
who swallowed a tick
I don't know why he swallowed that tick
'Cause it made him feel sick!

In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a monster swallows ants, a lizard, a bat, and other creatures to try to cure a stomachache that begin when he swallowed a tick.

LOS GATOS BLACK ON HALLOWEEN by MARISA MONTES

swcc is really enjoying this book!!

Now that is getting close to Halloween is a great book to read

 A cat's green eyes stare out from the book's cover. Inside, there are more of los gatos as well as las brujas (witches), los fantasmas (ghosts), and los esqueletos (skeletons looking like they have come from a Dia de los Muertos celebration. The pithy, rhyming text tells a frightening, if familiar, story. The ghosts and ghoulies are off to a Monsters'Ball at Haunted Hall, and though there's plenty of scary stuff around, the guests are most frightened by the children who come knocking at the door for trick-or-treat. Montes'evocative poem deserves exceptional artwork, and Morales obliges. Her soft-edged paintings glow with the luminosity of jewels, and her witches, werewolves, and corpses are frighteningly executed. Therein lies what may be a problem for preschoolers. These fiends aren't particularly kid-friendly; they are dead-eyed, Day of the Dead folk who scare. For slightly older children, however, this spookiness is what Halloween is all about. The Spanish is neatly integrated into the text, but for those who need clarification, a glossary is appended.

CREEPY CARROTS! by REYNOLDS AARON is what SWCC is reading

Fun book to read during this month of 

October!!!

Playing on the something-is-stalking-me-but-when-I-turn-around-nothing-is-there fears that have fueled countless scary movies, this goose-pimpler introduces a young bunny named Jasper who “couldn’t get enough carrots . . . until they started following him.” Tired of heart-racing, sleepless nights, Jasper concocts a master plan and builds an alligator-filled moat and sky-high fence around Crackenhopper Field to keep those nasty carrots at bay. Turns out, their plan to keep that nasty rabbit from eating their carrot buddies has a similarly happy ending. Brown’s charcoally black artwork is highlighted by deep oranges and delivers on the lighthearted thrills of Reynolds’ fright-night story.