Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Pirate Literacy Night



Our Family Literacy Nights are a BIG deal at our school!!  Each month, we host a big party in the library (woot! woot!) to encourage parent involvement.  It is the part of my job that wears me out the most but one of the things that I LOVE the most too!!  September was our Pirate Night.  We always have a combination of games, crafts, snacks and oh yeah...thematic books to read.  It really is a fun time and a great way for me to connect with families in my building.  I love it!  Our Pirate Night had 248 people attend- I told you it's a BIG deal!

Making Hand Hooks


Swab the Deck Game
Photo Booth Fun
Decorating Treasure Chests

We also had a Treasure Dig, Walking the Plank, Cannonball Fights, and Pirate Hat Making.  For snacks, we served Pirate's Booty and Ocean Water (blue kool-aid).

We aaaaarrreeee always up for a party in the library!!!
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Our Tree Named Steve

Saturday, September 26, 2015
Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel, Illustrated by David Catrow
This is by no means a new book (published 2005) but is one of those unfamiliar gems that I discovered in my library.  I wasn't familiar with the author- who I now found out was one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live.  So cool!  But I love love LOVE David Catrow's illustrations (think Molly Lou Melon and I Wanna Iguana) - that's what first drew me to this book.  I fell in love with this sweet coming of age story.   There are so many great lessons that could go with this book- life cycles, ecology, etc. but I used it with a lesson about text-to-text connections along with Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree.  Love both of these books so much that I loved this lesson just because the quality of the literature!!
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