Freda is Found, by Murphy Stuart J.

 Health and safety skills: Getting help when lost

 Happier, healthier, more confident children!!

Freda is excited to be on a class field trip. But after she stops to look in a store window gets separated from her class, and she can't find her group, but she remembers just what to do.

Burton Elementary - "Farmer Duck" by Martin Waddell

This week in library at Burton Elementary, we read the story "Farmer Duck", written by Martin Waddell and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. This is a great story about a farm where the farmer sits in bed all day eating candy while the duck does all the hard work around the farm. Everywhere the duck goes the lazy farmer asks him how the work is going, to which the duck replies, "quack". This is a great story to get kids thinking about the ideas of fairness and justice. You can ask questions like, "is it fair that the farmer gets to stay in bed all day eating candy while the duck does all the hard work?", or "do you think that the other farm animals did the right thing to help their friend the duck?", in order to get your young readers thinking about what the message of the story is.

Young students will enjoy the understated humor of how the farm animals communicate complex ideas to each other through simple sounds like "moo", "baa", "quack", and "cluck".

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Esta semana en la biblioteca de Burton, leímos el cuento "Farmer Duck", del autor Martin Waddell y la ilustradora Helen Oxenbury. Este es un muy buen cuento sobre una granja donde el granjero se queda todo el día en la cama y el pato hace todo el trabajo duro de la granja. Una y otra vez, el granjero perezoso pregunta el pato, "¿cómo te va en el trabajo?", y el pato dice solo "cuac". Este cuento es muy bueno para los niños les hacer pensar en "¿qué es justo?", y demás.

- Dennis De Boer

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.