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.
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.
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Barbara Siegemund-Broka, library resource specialist, maintains this blog to inform Pennekamp students and families about library news and related content. Any opinions expressed here are solely her own.
What's Ms. Barbara reading?How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell
Worth repeating:
His eyes are soft. “Do you know why I became a librarian?” I wait for him to tell me, because of course I don’t. “Dewey,” he says. “As in the decimal system.” I’m not sure if he’s joking or not, but he continues, “I like order. I like organization. The idea of all the information in the world, all organized, everything in its place—I like that idea.” He clears his throat. “But I’ve been doing this job for a long time. And the thing I’ve learned is that stories aren’t about order and organization. They’re about feelings. And the feelings don’t always make sense. See, stories are like …” He pauses, brow furrowing, then nods, satisfied in finding the right comparison: “Water. Like rain. We can hold them tight, but they always slip through our fingers.” I try to hide my shock. Joe doesn’t seem like the poetic type. His caterpillar eyebrows knit together. “That can be scary. But remember that water gives us life. It connects continents. It connects people. And in quiet moments, when the water’s still, sometimes we can see our own reflection.” --From When You Trap a Tiger, by Tae Heller, winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal Archives
August 2021
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