Halloween

We have been reading a lot of good books with a Halloween theme this 6 days leading up to Halloween. The 3rd grade, I read Bats in the Library by Brian Lies. I love this book, written in rhyme, mainly because of its pictures and the love of the library and reading that it portrays. We always spend  a lot of time looking at the pages that show different "scenes" from famous books or legends, with bats as the central characters.





 

 

I read A Job for Wittilda for the first time and then I read it to the 1st grade classes.  I really like this book and it was apparently popular because the book was in bad shape.  It had been taped together on almost every page.  I went looking for another copy to buy - and found that this book is not easy to get your hands on.  New copies on amazon were going for as high as $138.00.

 

                                 

 

The first grade was able to make some great inferences regarding this book.  We looked at the cover and thought about what it was telling us - that Wittilda is a witch and this book has something to do with A LOT of cats.  It is a great book and it was fun.

 

K classes looked at Dav Pilkey's Dragon's Halloween.  They thought it was hysterical when I pointed out that Dav Pilkey was also the author of the Captain Underpants books.

One of the illustrations by Brian Lies showing bats imagining themselves as King Arthur, Little Red Riding Hood, the Velveteen Rabbit, and the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland.

In 4th and 5th grades, we are still working on the catalog and call numbers and finding things in the library.  The 5th grade classes made Halloween "books" last time by decorating a cutout of a book showing the front cover and spine.  They did both a fiction book and a nonfiction book.  I provided some Halloween dewey decimal numbers.  I think this went a long way in showing every member of the classes what the call numbers were - each student had to bring theirs to me so I could check what they had done.  We are making a creepy bookcase in the story pit - a fiction and nonfiction shelf - and the classes will have to "shelve" their books properly on the shelves. This time, they will "shelve" their books on these "shelves."

 

The story pit, decorated for Halloween.