Labeling Book Parts with Room 2

Room 2 students showed that they knew how to assign E call numbers as well as label parts of a book.

Grade 3 Book Love

Before we had our first checkout this week, third graders shared some of their favorite titles to recommend to their fellow students and to let me know what we're missing. Copies of everything on are welcome as donations!

Already in the library (but we can always use more)

Grade 2 teachers are reading
"Dragon Gets By" this month.
Their former students loved
the series.

• Cam Jansen books
• Captain Underpants series
• Dragon series (by Dav Pilkey)
• The Great Kapok Tree
• Grumpy Cat books
• Helen Keller biography
• Owl Diary series
• Plants v. Zombies books
• Pokemon books
• Puppy Place series
• Rainbow Magic series

Would like to get

• Apocalypse Bow Wow
• Dogman: Tale of Two Kitties
• Fairy Little Red Riding Hood
• The Jungle Book
• Overwatch
• Spy Camp
• Triaurus and the Enchanted Crystal (Dan TDM)
• Who Was Thomas Jefferson?

How Grade 2 Will Have an AWESOME YEAR

We want second grade to be AWESOME!!!! After watching this video from Kid President, grade 2 students came up with a list of ways to make this year awesome in class, in library, and in general.

• Be smart.
• Pay attention.
• Be good.
• Follow directions.
• No bullying.
• Be nice. 
• Follow the rules.
• Don't hurt anybody.
• Be helpful.
• Listen to the teacher.
• Don't act silly during learning time.
• Put stuff back where you find it.
• Don't yell.
• Read lots of books.
• Take care of supplies.
• No running indoors (unless it's PE and Mr. Warnock says it's ok)
• Keep your body to yourself.
• No shouting out answers.
• One person talks at a time.
• Always read and write.

What Ms. Moore is Reading - Vacation Weeks 9 &10

Here are some of the most recent books I've read and recommend for my students. They're all available from the public library, but any donations towards getting them into our collection are most welcome! Cover images and descriptions are from Goodreads.

Picture Books

Everybody has a favorite color. Some like blue balloons or brown buildings or mint green ice cream cones. Others prefer sunshine yellow, Maine morning gray, or Mexican pink. In What's Your Favorite Color?, 15 children's book artists draw their favorite colors and explain why they love them.Contributors include: Eric Carle, Lauren Castillo, Bryan Collier, Mike Curato, Yuyi Morales, and Melissa Sweet. NOTE: I'm going to add this to our Mock Caldecott list. 

Do you know where your butt is? Morty the penguin has no idea! He’s pretty sure he has one, but where IS it? So he does what any reasonable penguin would do: ask. But no one in the South Pole can help—not the other penguins, not the polar bear who shouldn’t be there, and definitely not the seal who wants to eat him for dinner. So Morty goes on a wild trip—from his frozen home to the steamy South American jungle and finally to outer space—to find the answer. 

Middle Grade Novels

Binny Cornwallis has lost something. Something that wasn't really hers in the first place. With her best enemy Gareth and her beloved dog Max she turns detective to track it down, but the Cornwallis family are anything but helpful. Little brother James and his friend Dill are having an adventure of their own and big sister Clem is acting very strangely. And on top of all this, Binny suspects their next-door neighbour may be a witch ...

To Molly Nathans, perfect is: the number four; the tip of a newly sharpened number two pencil; a crisp, white pad of paper; her neatly aligned glass animal figurines. What’s not perfect is Molly’s mother leaving the family to take a faraway job with the promise to return in one year. Molly knows that promises are often broken, so she hatches a plan to bring her mother home: Win the Lakeville Middle School Slam Poetry Contest. But as time goes on, writing and reciting slam poetry become harder. Actually, everything becomes harder as new habits appear, and counting, cleaning, and organizing are not enough to keep Molly’s world from spinning out of control.

Nonfiction

Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote code that would allow the spacecraft’s computer to solve any problems it might encounter. Apollo 8. Apollo 9. Apollo 10. Apollo 11. Without her code, none of those missions could have been completed. NOTE: I'll be reading to Grade 1 as part of our Hour of Code lessons in December.

Moto and Me tells the firsthand story of wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas’s care for an orphaned baby serval—a small, spotted wildcat—in Kenya. When a grass fire separates the serval from his family, a ranger asks Suzi, who is living in a bush camp and is skilled with animals, to be the serval’s foster mom.

The book chronicles Suzi’s tender care of Moto, including how she feeds, bathes, and plays with him, and helps him develop hunting skills. Her goal is to help him learn how to survive on his own in the wild. After 6 months, he is ready to leave—a difficult good-bye, but exactly what Suzi had worked for.