Guess what today is!
{Celebrating the books we’ve read in the past week
& the titles we are currently reading.}
This meme is originated by Jen and Kellee at TeachMentorTexts. Thanks!
Before I get into the regular stuff, there were some fun student contributions from our week off. Here they are!
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Emmie emailed me to let me know that she finished the sequel to Powerless and loved it, so I tweeted it to the author, Matthew Cody:
Update:
Final update:
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Kelsey emailed me a summary and review of Hoot.
Roy is a very curious boy. When he moves a lot and he gets bullied everyday on the morning bus by Dana Matherson. While in the middle of getting smushed by Dana he sees a boy running with no shoes on and wonders why he’s not in school or why he’s not wearing any shoes—right there and then he has to find out why. With no one believing him about what he saw about the boy, there’s other things to worry about. He can’t ride the bus anymore because he got in a fist fight with Dana and hurt the kid bad. While garret (rebel) tries telling Roy that Dana is going to mess him up when he goes back on the bus, he runs into this girl Beatrice who actually saw the boy too.
One day Beatrice caught up to Roy and asked for bandages and beef—a lot of it. They take it to the barefoot the boy who shows them what the meat is for: owls. Owls living in holes at the construction site where a new restaurant will be opening. Can Roy and his pals save these owls?
This is a caring, interesting, friendly story that shows even if you have the littlest voice you can make the biggest sound.
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Samara posted on the last blog about her vacation reading. Here it is in case you missed it:
Hi I’m reading “Going home” by Nicholasa Mohr and it’s my 2nd time reading it, it’s just such a good book. But it’s about how girl takes a trip to Puerto Rico with her uncle for the summer and doesn’t really fit in when she first gets there, but by the end of the summer she is wiser.I recommend this book to anyone because it’s just a really good book.
{Samara—you might want to look into her other books.}
Thanks again to Samantha for lending the book. It was a great vacation read.
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Check back for students’ BOOKselfies, due on Wednesday.
Period 1&2
Books
http://padlet.com/mretkinshms/12bookselfies
Period 5&6
Books
http://padlet.com/mretkinshms/56bookselfies
Period 9&10
Parents are invited to participate in our journey as well.
For every parent who leaves a comment on TODAY’S POST with what you’re reading, I’ll give your child a BUSTED ticket…
Holt is the author of the National Book Award-winning When Zachary Beaver Came to Town. I’m honored to get a first look at her upcoming Dear Hank Williams, and also to be a stop on the author’s blog tour in a couple months. Stop back for the interview and giveaway on April 8th!
{Eat the Book} 
