Mar 02 2012
Read Across America Day and Rockets!
Today was such an exciting day! To celebrate Read Across America Day we had two events where we celebrated books. The first one took place this morning before lunch. Two published authors came and read Pete the Popcorn which they wrote! It was about how everyone is different but so important! After reading the book the two authors, Nick and Joseph, asked for a few examples of our friends and teachers to share what they liked about each other. Then, they told us to keep encouraging each other and filling each other’s buckets! I thought it was such a great connection to what we already do each day!
This afternoon we celebrated Dr. Suess’ birthday! A group from Pi Phi and Butler came to our school and had a surprise birthday party! They gave each child a Cat in the Hat hat, a bookmark, and a delicious homemade cookie! The Cat in the Hat actually came and read The Cat in the Hat. Then the group hosting the party donated over 200 books to the Butler Lab School!! We will now be able to share these books among the four classrooms this year and continue to foster a love for reading and books in our classrooms!
We continued to work on the rocket today! The children decided that our rocket boosters that originally were going to be toilet paper rolls needed to be sturdy. As we were looking around the room it appeared that we could use the canister that our snack was in for our boosters! So, we asked the other teachers if we could use theirs once they were finished. As the day was coming to a close, I read Regards to the Man in the Moonby Ezra Jack Keats. This book is consumed by the thought that imagination is what drives us and should be celebrated!! It is about a friend who uses his imagination to travel into space and see all of the beautiful things around him! At the end of the story it says, “Soon all the kids were ready to take off.” I told our friends this afternoon after we were done reading to be ready to “take off” on Monday. There is some fun stuff awaiting them!
Our rocket coming to life!
After the children came back from the party, this is what Emily and Sydney did!
The Cat in the Hat!
Our friends engrossed in watching the Cat in the Hat read!
One of the authors of "Pete the Popcorn" celebrating with some of our friends their compliments towards each other.
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