Here are the total votes for the kindergarten and first graders. Finding Winnie was the winner, with Growing Up Pedro and The Night World in a tie for second, and Wolfie the Bunny coming in next. We hadn't read all of the books, so students rotated between tables looking at all of the books during class this week.
Our third graders, along with Mrs. Kleinmeyer's third graders in Council Bluffs voted like this:
Obviously, Growing Up Pedro won by a landslide, which surprised me, quite frankly. I didn't expect any of the books to win by that much because so many of them were so good! We just read that book this week, so I'm wondering if that affected the vote. I also realized that this is probably the first non-fiction book we've read aloud this year. Many students, particularly boys, prefer non-fiction, especially about sports, which may have influenced the vote, also.
Tomorrow the real Caldecott winners will be announced. I'll have the live feed on in the library, though it might just be over by the time we start school since it's on East Coast time. I can't wait to see who the winners are & read and discuss the books this week. Quite frankly, I'm a little bit anxious to see who wins!
The second graders took a week off from our robot/fairy tale projects to practice non-fiction text features for an upcoming assessment. We used a beginning reader series from Scholastic about animals to practice using the table of contents, glossary, and index. I linked a 3 question Google Form to each book and students used iPads to answer the questions. Then, I can go in and view the answers using a tool called Flubaroo. After seeing the results from each quiz, I can reteach or move on as needed.
Fourth graders have begun working on creating a book trailer for a book they read over winter vacation. Writing the script is the hardest part, which is what we're working on now. We will have some fun movies to show off in a few weeks!
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