Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

A Book Review by Lucia

Giggle, Giggle, Quack

A Book Review by Carmine

Snow Toward Evening

A Book Review by Olivia

Kennel Club Radio Show

Photograph by robnguyen01 on Flickr

Today on the Kennel Club Radio Show we have Kaydence reading the December poem, Snow Toward Evening by Melville Cane.

December Poem

Book Review

Alex recommends that you read A Color of His Own by Leo Leonni.  It sounds good to me.  What do you think?  Tell us what you like about this book if you've read it before.

Kennel Club Radio Show

Photograph by PlentyofAnts on Flickr

Welcome to the Kennel Club Radio Show!  This is our Second Grade Podcast.  Today we have Lucia reading the November poem, Fly Away by Christina Rossetti.

November Poem

December Holiday Rainbow

BOOK CHALLENGE:  DECEMBER HOLIDAY RAINBOW

This book challenge will have you reading a rainbow of books about December holidays!  Here are ten books that go along with this theme.  To meet the challenge you must read three December holiday books and they each must have a different color.  Here are ten suggested books, but you can read other books on this theme too:

Red:  Chanukah (available on Bookflix)

Red:  Crafts for Kwanzaa by Kathy Ross

Orange:  When Washington Crossed the Deleware:  A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots by Lynne Cheney

Yellow:  Eight Chanukah Lights by Annie Auerbach

Yellow:  My First Kwanzaa Book by Deborah Newton Chocolate

Green:  Christmas Presents:  Holiday Poetry (I Can Read Book) by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Blue:  Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson

Blue:  The Night of Las Posadas by Tomie dePaola

Blue:  The Month of Kislev:  A Story for Hanukkah by Nina Jaffe (available on Bookflix)

Purple:  Dragon's Merry Christmas by Dave Pilkey

You can read these books at home or in class.  Just remember to put them on your reading log!  Almost all of these books can be found in either the Morris Plains or the Morris County Library and many of them are available in our classroom.  

Use the comments section to make comments, ask questions, or tell us other great December holiday books you've read.

Happy reading,

Miss Kramer

Colonial Life Rainbow

BOOK CHALLENGE:  COLONIAL LIFE RAINBOW

This book challenge will have you reading a rainbow of books about colonial life and Thanksgiving!  Here are ten books that go along with this theme.  To meet the challenge you must read three colonial life books and they each must have a different color.  Here are ten suggested books, but you can read other books on this theme too:

Red:  Thanksgiving by Trudi Strain Trueit (available on Bookflix)

Orange:  Squanto and the First Thanksgiving by Joyce K. Kessel

Orange:  Finding Providence:  The Story of Roger Williams by Avi

Yellow:  Sarah Morton's Day:  A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by Kate Waters

Yellow:  Samuel Eaton's Day:  A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy by Kate Waters

Green:  'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey

Green:  10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston

Blue:  Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano

Purple:  Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne

Purple:  My America:  Our Strange New Land:  Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary by Patricia Hermes

You can read these books at home or in class.  Just remember to put them on your reading log!  Almost all of these books can be found in either the Morris Plains or the Morris County Library and many of them are available in our classroom.  

Use the comments section to make comments, ask questions, or tell us other great colonial life books you've read.

Happy reading,

Miss Kramer

Seymour Simon

Photograph of Seymour Simon from website below.

http://www.seymoursimon.com/

Seymour Simon is super smart and super cool!  He wrote Super Storms, See in 3D Wild Weather, See in 3D Planets, and many more books in our classroom library.  He has his own website with a blog--just like us.  Check it out.  You can watch videos, look up words in the science dictionary, find out what books he has out right now, and read posts/write comments on his blog.  What do you like about Seymour Simon's writing?

Miss Michelle's Whatif Monster

http://whatifmonsters.com/

Who remembers when Miss Michelle visited our school last year?  Didn't you just LOVE her?!?  I did! She has a new website for her book Jonathan James and the Whatif Monster.  Click the link to explore.  I'm going to buy a copy for our classroom.  I can't wait to read it!  What color from our rainbow will this book be?  Write a comment if you've read this book.  Tell us about it!