This week the lower grades continue with the nominees for the California Young Reader Medal. The upper grades are hearing examples of narrative nonfiction, a type of writing they are learning about in class. The choice for grade 4, Everglades, by Jean Craighead George, does double duty as it has to do with the impact on Native Americans of the coming of the Spanish explorers. The book is set in what we now call Florida, but grade 4 will soon be looking at the same conflict as it played out in California. For grade 5, which is studying weather, I've chosen a narrative nonfiction book about lightning and Benjamin Franklin, since that grade is about ready to start on the American Revolution. Ben Franklin was accomplished in so many ways, including as an inventor. Below please find a YouTube clip of someone playing one of Franklin's many inventions, the glass armonica. (Please note not all advertisements, comments, or sidebar content on YouTube is appropriate for children.)
The book club meeting last Thursday went great! The club is now very full--I'm afraid I really cannot accept any more members. We have chosen The War that Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, as our book to read in January. I just finished it and really liked it. We meet again on Febrary 4.
The book club meeting last Thursday went great! The club is now very full--I'm afraid I really cannot accept any more members. We have chosen The War that Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, as our book to read in January. I just finished it and really liked it. We meet again on Febrary 4.
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