Inaugural Rooster Games

Thanks to all of the students who read RI Children's Book Award books and participated in the first annual Rooster Games, a test of their knowledge of plots, characters, settings, and illustrations. Here are some photos from the night: 

Teams rotated through 5 stations

Our first two arrivals

Serious team photo

Silly team photo

First station: settings. Photo by Michelle Blanchette.

Click this link to see the second station ... can you identify the books?

Third station: characters. Photo by Michelle Blanchette

Fourth station: Matching objects to books ... anyone want the rat? I have it!

Last station: Debating trivia answers

Decision made!

Next question!

Thanks to siblings who came along to support the team!

Book Fair Shenanigans

The book fair's theme from Scholastic is Wild West; we received a "photo booth" kit today and took pictures of the kids sporting cowboy hats, mustaches, and sheriff badges:

Book Fair - 1st Day

Glad to see that lots of kids found books they liked today and started reading them already!

Grade 3 Loves The Wild Robot!

Oh my goodness. I am so excited that the third graders like "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown so much. An accomplished picture book creator, Brown has written his first novel, and it's on the 2018 Rhode Island Children's Book Award list. I love this book!

I started reading it today to the third graders, and they independently drew pictures inspired by the illustrations as I read. Looking forward to continuing the book next week! I love these kids!

Edited to add Twitter response from the author/illustrator: