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Our school will welcome Patricia Lakin on May 10. Click the link to her website to learn more about her!
Monday, April 15, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Earth Rainbow
BOOK CHALLENGE: EARTH RAINBOW
This book challenge will have you reading a rainbow of books about the Earth! Here are ten books that go along with this theme. To meet the challenge you must read three Earth 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: Our Earth: Helping Out (Scholastic News) by Peggy Hock (available on Bookflix)
Orange: Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter
Yellow: Where Does the Garbage Go by Paul Showers
Yellow: Children of the Earth...Remember by Schim Schimmel
Yellow: Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: A Compost Story by Linda Glaser
Green: Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth by mary McKenna Siddals
Blue: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Blue: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (available on Bookflix)
Blue: The Curious Garden by Peter Brown (available on Bookflix)
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 Earth books you've read.
Happy reading,
Miss Kramer
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Kennel Club Radio Show
Photo by Olivier GR on flickr
Today on the Kennel Club Radio Show we have Clara, Julia, and Carmine reading the March poem, "Mountain Brook" by Elizabeth Coatsworth.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Book Recommendations by Mr. Horwitz's Class
This VoiceThread was made by some other second graders. Mr. Horwitz let me post it here so we can see their recommendations.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Kennel Club Radio Show
Photograph by herrolm
Today on the Kennel Club Radio Show we have Kenny reading the February poem, "When Skies Are Low and Days Are Dark" by N. M. Bodecker.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Jack Prelutsky
One of our reading groups read a biography about Jack Prelutsky, a famous poet. We really enjoy his silly poems and think you might too! Visit his website to find out more about this interesting author.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Kennel Club Radio Show
Today on the Kennel Club Radio Show we have Geoffrey reading the January poem, January by John Updike.
January Poem
Friday, January 25, 2013
Weather Rainbow
BOOK CHALLENGE: WEATHER RAINBOW
This book challenge will have you reading a rainbow of books about weather! Here are fifteen books that go along with this theme. To meet the challenge you must read three weather books and they each must have a different color. Here are fifteen suggested books, but you can read other books on this theme too:
Red: Snowy Weather Days (Scholastic New Nonfiction Readers) by Katie Marsico (available on Bookflix)
Red: Rainy Weather Days (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers) by Pam Rosenberg (available on Bookflix)
Red: Clouds (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science) by Anne Rockwell
Red: The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola
Orange: Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Orange: Super Storms That Rocked the World by Mark Shulman
Orange: The Man Who Named the Clouds by Julia Hanna
Yellow: What Will The Weather Be by Lynda DeWitt
Green: Cloud Dance by Thomas Locker
Blue: Thunkercake by Patricia Polacco
Blue: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Blue: The Rain Came Down by David Shannon
Purple: Blizzard of the Blue Moon by Mary Pope Osborne
Purple: Twister on Tuesday by Mary Pope Osborne
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 weather books you've read.
Happy reading,
Miss Kramer
Friday, January 11, 2013
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