Waterloo and Trafalgar by Olivier Tallec (2012)
Olivier Tallec’s cover is so artistically pleasing, I had to open it up and explore further. The book in hues of orange and blue comprises two characters, Waterloo, and Trafalgar and cleverly explores the futility of war; in a way any child can understand, possibly even better than many adults can. It’s also a wordless book, so popular these last two years, and beautifully done. Olivier’s blog is exsquisite http://www.oliviertallec.fr/
! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld (2013)
This book is such a fun way to share punctuation with children. Exclamation mark is confused, deflated and flummoxed because he is not like everyone else. It’s a great day for him when he meets another special punctuation mark…can you guess who? http://www.whoisamy.com/
Show me the money! Bring it in, spend it, shop up BIG this Thursday and Friday as you cruise down the Elementary Hallway.
Ask your families for a little cash to come and splurge on some wonderful new books. While I am a HUGE FAN of you NEVER needing to actually BUY any books while you are a student at one of THE BEST LIBRARIES IN THE WORLD… In this case, our library gets TEN PERCENT of the money YOU spend this week, to spend ON our library…. so your spending actually helps us get MORE FREE books into your hands.
Blue Fountain Books have set up a huge assortment of books outside of the ES and MS/HS libraries and there really is something for everyone…so come along with your teacher on Thursday, or your parents on Thursday and Friday, and support reading, literacy and learning at the same time as supporting our library.
*Entering is voluntary.
*There will be three divisions:
Friday March 15th: open to all 4th and 5th grade students, teachers and specialists
In years past, several of our SAS students have had success winning prizes in categories including tastiest, most creative and people’s choice. We will have many, many categories for our students to achieve success in, nobody will go away empty handed. Some examples for your creation include:
Princess and the Pea
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Paper Bag Princess
Trucks
James and the Giant Peach
Please consider getting creative with your child, this really is a fun way to celebrate literature, you are only limited by your imagination. Please include a copy of your book with your cake, see pictures below.
Registration forms are available from the ES library and are due by 3 pm the Tuesday before your Friday cake competition. Children will be asked to put
*their name and class
*book title and author’s name
Cakes and their accompanying books must be delivered to the ES Library as soon as your child arrives on Friday morning. They will be judged before morning recess, viewed throughout the day, and available for eating after 2 pm!
Some of the awards given will be for taste, so IF you don’t want your cake to be eaten, please make sure you let me know personally via e mail: kimbra.power@saschina.org as part of the idea is for the students to have a lot of fun with this, and everybody loves eating cake! Therefore, please do NOT use nuts, or nut products in any of your creations.
Below are some photos of last years entries, and here is a link to some great photos of other Books to Eat competitions around the world. Google books to eat and check out what is out there.
http://www.teachertube.com/embed/player.swf
TeacherTube Videos – It’s a Book.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
To give some background on this clip, my colleague and friend, Mrs Toa told me about this clip on the weekend and it sounds just perfect considering some of the work I am doing through my Plymouth Library course, as well as just the general humor of it anyway. It is certainly relevant considering all the tech conferences I have been too recently. It also makes me think of how my 9 and 3 year old daughters handle technology, Mimi (3) always wants images to slide across the screen after hanging out with iphones etc for half her life and gets frustrated when images don’t move.
Read any good books lately?
I have a task for you to complete by Monday April 26th. Ideally, it would be great if you could do it on your blog, but it is not essential, your reader’s notebook would also be appropriate.
So, below is a list of the top 100 Children’s novels as taken from this site.
I would like you to copy the list into a word document, and then highlight it in the following way:
RED = books you have read (be honest, not movies watched, not ‘want to read’ or ‘half-read’ but actually finished)
BLUE = books you have been meaning to read
GREEN = 3 books you must read before the end of the school year (you have 55 sleeps to go)
(Your three ‘green books‘ are probably going to start off being ‘blue books‘ and you then have to choose which three blue to turn green…Get It?)
Then, paste the revised list back into your blog for others to see and do the following:
Choose 5 of the books that you have already read and do a review of them on your blog, approximately 200 words per book review and add a cover photo of the book to your post.
Now, before you scroll down and see the list, which is ordered from 100 down to the number 1 book, make a prediction… What do YOU think is the number one children’s book? Please include that at the start of your blog post…
Like this… I predict that the Number One Children’s Novel will be: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
100. The Egypt Game – Snyder (1967)
99. The Indian in the Cupboard – Banks (1980)
98. Children of Green Knowe – Boston (1954)
97. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – DiCamillo (2006)
96. The Witches – Dahl (1983)
95. Pippi Longstocking – Lindgren (1950)
94. Swallows and Amazons – Ransome (1930)
93. Caddie Woodlawn – Brink (1935)
92. Ella Enchanted – Levine (1997)
91. Sideways Stories from Wayside School – Sachar (1978)
90. Sarah, Plain and Tall – MacLachlan (1985)
89. Ramona and Her Father – Cleary (1977)
88. The High King – Alexander (1968)
87. The View from Saturday – Konigsburg (1996)
86. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Rowling (1999)
85. On the Banks of Plum Creek – Wilder (1937)
84. The Little White Horse – Goudge (1946)
83. The Thief – Turner (1997)
82. The Book of Three – Alexander (1964)
81. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Lin (2009)
80. The Graveyard Book – Gaiman (2008)
79. All-of-a-Kind-Family – Taylor (1951)
78. Johnny Tremain – Forbes (1943)
77. The City of Ember – DuPrau (2003)
76. Out of the Dust – Hesse (1997)
75. Love That Dog – Creech (2001)
74. The Borrowers – Norton (1953)
73. My Side of the Mountain – George (1959)
72. My Father’s Dragon – Gannett (1948)
71. The Bad Beginning – Snicket (1999)
70. Betsy-Tacy – Lovelae (1940)
69. The Mysterious Benedict Society – Stewart ( 2007)
68. Walk Two Moons – Creech (1994)
67. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher – Coville (1991)
66. Henry Huggins – Cleary (1950)
65. Ballet Shoes – Stratfeild (1936)
64. A Long Way from Chicago – Peck (1998)
63. Gone-Away Lake – Enright (1957)
62. The Secret of the Old Clock – Keene (1959)
61. Stargirl – Spinelli (2000)
60. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi (1990)
59. Inkheart – Funke (2003)
58. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Aiken (1962)
57. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 – Cleary (1981)
56. Number the Stars – Lowry (1989)
55. The Great Gilly Hopkins – Paterson (1978)
54. The BFG – Dahl (1982)
53. Wind in the Willows – Grahame (1908)
52. The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Selznik (2007)
51. The Saturdays – Enright (1941)
50. Island of the Blue Dolphins – O’Dell (1960)
49. Frindle – Clements (1996)
48. The Penderwicks – Birdsall (2005)
47. Bud, Not Buddy – Curtis (1999)
46. Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawls (1961)
45. The Golden Compass – Pullman (1995)
44. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Blume (1972)
43. Ramona the Pest – Cleary (1968)
42. Little House on the Prairie – Wilder (1935)
41. The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Speare (1958)
40. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Baum (1900)
39. When You Reach Me – Stead (2009)
38. HP and the Order of the Phoenix – Rowling (2003)
37. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Taylor (1976)
36. Are You there, God? It’s Me, Margaret – Blume (1970)
35. HP and the Goblet of Fire – Rowling (2000)
34. The Watson’s Go to Birmingham – Curtis (1995)
33. James and the Giant Peach – Dahl (1961)
32. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – O’Brian (1971)
31. Half Magic – Eager (1954)
30. Winnie-the-Pooh – Milne (1926)
29. The Dark Is Rising – Cooper (1973)
28. A Little Princess – Burnett (1905)
27. Alice I and II – Carroll (1865/72)
26. Hatchet – Paulsen (1989)
25. Little Women – Alcott (1868/9)
24. HP and the Deathly Hallows – Rowling (2007)
23. Little House in the Big Woods – Wilder (1932)
22. The Tale of Despereaux – DiCamillo (2003)
21. The Lightening Thief – Riordan (2005)
20. Tuck Everlasting – Babbitt (1975)
19. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Dahl (1964)
18. Matilda – Dahl (1988)
17. Maniac Magee – Spinelli (1990)
16. Harriet the Spy – Fitzhugh (1964)
15. Because of Winn-Dixie – DiCamillo (2000)
14. HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban – Rowling (1999)
13. Bridge to Terabithia – Paterson (1977)
12. The Hobbit – Tolkien (1938)
11. The Westing Game – Raskin (1978)
10. The Phantom Tollbooth – Juster (1961)
9. Anne of Green Gables – Montgomery (1908)
8. The Secret Garden – Burnett (1911)
7. The Giver -Lowry (1993)
6. Holes – Sachar (1998)
5. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – Koningsburg (1967)
4. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Lewis (1950)
3. Harry Potter #1 – Rowling (1997)
2. A Wrinkle in Time – L’Engle (1962)
1. Charlotte’s Web – White (1952)
Did you predict right? Was you book on the list? What number? Don’t forget to include that information in your blog post titled: Top 100 Children’s Novels
If your child is a book-worm like mine, then you will be happy to know that you may be able to purchase some new books for them next week at our SAS Pudong Book Fair.
It is being held in what we refer to as the ‘Orange Grove Room’ (between the 5th grade cafeteria and the middle/high school library) and our class are going over as a group to look at and buy books between 9.00 and 9.30 on Tuesday the 4th.
You can also buy books yourself anytime during the week and they will still be on sale when you come in for conferences on Thursday and Friday. I am sending home e mails today with your conference times listed so I look forward to seeing you next week.
Hi 5KP, thanks for the blog posts you have been adding. Don’t forget to take some pictures over your break and I can teach you how to add those to your blog.
For those of you looking for a good book to read, Mr. Howitt just sent me an exciting link. Go here to find out what book you would like to read next. You can join up if you want and create an account but you don’t have to, I just kept putting in the names of books I liked.
This would be a great way of getting a list together to put on your Destiny reference page in our school catalog.
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