I have been volunteering a lot at school this year and one of the things I help with is Junior Great Books. It is a program designed to get classic literature, folk tales, poetry, etc. into the hands of children grades 1-5 in small group settings. It’s a great place to talk about vocabulary, setting, problem, solution, etc. The program also has an art component, a writing component and many other ways to take the literature in different directions such as role play and readers’ theater depending on the story, age and ability. I met with my first grade group for the first time this week. I read the story to them this time and then they did some response activities. We will build on those when I meet with them tomorrow. I also found out last night that I am going to leading a third grade group as well. It will be interesting to see how the third grade materials differ from the first grade’s.
Archive for October 13th 2010
Liam decided he wanted to help decorate for Halloween so he made this bat and taped it to the shutters in the dining room. 🙂
Prepped for the final touches in the morning
Right before school started I had these so organized. They were all washed, dried and stacked just so. Now that we have been using them to take snacks and lunches to school for the past five weeks, they are not quite as organized as they once were.
