Coming Soon: Blind Date with a Book

January 23, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

WHO: 7th grade and 8th grade students WHAT: A book club for your creative side! Set your book up on a blind date by covering the front and back covers and title. Students can use a book from your personal collection or a library book, as long as it is school appropriate. Students, whatever book […]

Coming Soon: 4th and 5th Grade Book Club

December 14, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

WHO: 4th grade students and their book club hosts – 5th grade readers! WHAT: 5th grade is coming together to plan fun and interesting activities and discussion based around Paper Wishes*, a middle-grade novel by Lois Sepahban. Since they’re in charge of all of the planning, the details aren’t mine to share – but I know it will be great! All participants […]

7th and 8th Grade Book Club: Life as We Knew It and The Dead & The Gone, by Susan Beth Pfeffer

December 6, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Do you remember my lamenting about finding a book exciting and engaging enough to hook a big group of 5th and 6th graders? Okay. Take that, add a few years, lots of growing up, and about 2x the homework. Also, sports practice. And Early Morning Latin. And you’re left with the impossible task of […]

Coming Soon: 7th and 8th Grade Book Club

November 14, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Attention, 7th and 8th graders! Consider this your official invitation to the our very exclusive End-of-the-World Book Club. (Yes, you read that right.) WHO: 7th and 8th grade students as well as staff like Mr. Price, Ms. Mathieson, Ms. Beckwith, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Gulotta, and yours truly! WHAT: An exciting and thought-provoking book discussion about Life as We Knew It […]

5th and 6th Grade Book Club: Booked, by Kwame Alexander

October 25, 2016.Reading time 10 minutes.

Finding a book exciting and interesting enough to captivate both 5th and 6th graders, boys and girls, with a wide variety of interests and reading levels, is no easy feat. The book needed to be short enough not to frustrate readers working on their skills, but challenging enough for even our best readers to push […]

Coming Soon: 5th and 6th Grade Book Club

October 4, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Attention, 5th and 6th graders! Consider this your official invitation to the first Book Club of the 2016-2017 school year. WHO: 5th and 6th grade students as well as staff like Mr. Price, Mr. Passmore, Ms. Dean, Ms. Stevens, Ms. Matheson, and yours truly! WHAT: An awesome book discussion including activities, art, and lots of […]