What Are You Reading Good? (05/06/2011)

I'm so excited about the reading that my students are doing!  Kids have been bringing in their books and doing their reading hunts more and more.  I ask them to do a reading hunt every time I see them.  Some kids are really good at doing the reading hunt and others are getting better!  I love to see and hear about what they are reading at home.  

Last week I was excited to give Jeyanna a book that she had earned through reading rewards.  She chose an Elephant and Piggie book by Mo Willems called Elephants Cannot Dance!.  We love reading books from the Elephant and Piggie series so I was so happy to give Jeyanna a book of her very own to take home and read again and again.

 I hope she's having fun reading it at home!  We always have a blast reading these books!

 This week, I was excited to find Marty McGuire by Kate Messner at the bookstore for Jodie.  I've heard great things about Marty McGuire and so far Jodie has had fun reading it!  I haven't even read it yet, so I can't wait to hear what she thinks of the book.  When she's done I'm hoping she'll let me borrow it!

 It's fun to watch the kids write their names in their very own books!  I just love books.

I seem to have forgotten to ask the students to take pictures of me with my books this week!  I've found some great picture books lately.  One that had me laughing this week was You're Finally Here! by Melanie Watt.  I read it with one of my 2nd graders.  I also have started reading Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald Sobol.  I like that he solves a case in every chapter!  I was listening to One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin which was about a bunch of kids who live on a street with an orange tree...until the owner of the lot where the orange tree grows wants to chop the tree up into woodchips and the kids stand up for their tree.  Here's the slideshow so you can see what some of the kids have been reading:

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