We're Moving Right Along

What joy this vision was for Aidan's mom as she looked back and saw him so engaged in his reading!

We've caught the reading bug!  Every Monday the children get to pick ten new books from the tubs of just right books for their independent reading time.  They love this!  It's just like going to a bookstore.  Nothing thrills me more than to watch them grow as readers!

Don't forget to think about books as gifts for the holiday this year. The children would love a book by Jan Brett, the illustrator/author of the book below and many more.   

Today we kicked off the study of her books.  Every day this month I'll read one of her books as we continue working on our "thinking strategies".  

This looks like:

Making predictions

Wondering

Questioning

Making connections to ourselves, to other books, and to the world

Inferring (what we might call reading between the lines)

Jan Brett can be found at http://www.janbrett.com/index.html

Her home page includes videos on how to draw the animals in her books which the children would love to see, along with pictures of all of the books she has written.

Happy Reading!

Mary Beth