Sunday, February 21, 2016

Jill Esbaum Prep

It was another fun week preparing for our upcoming author visit! Jill Esbaum will joining us on Wednesday to meet with our K-4 students. We're all getting VERY excited!

Kindergarteners read I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo and voted on which Jill Esbaum book has been their favorite so far. Here are the results:





First graders listened to Elwood Bigfoot, which inspired many debates and arguments about whether or not Bigfoot is real...that's a complicated conversation for some 6-7 year olds! I'm interested to see if it comes up in our conversations with Ms. Esbaum!

Second graders listened to I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo, and a couple of the classes had time left to read Tom's Tweet.

Third and fourth graders rotated through 8 Jill Esbaum stations. Five of them had her Angry Birds books there that had a QR code on the inside, linked to a Padlet question about the book. Here's what the Padlet looked like for the Angry Birds Playground: Q & A Book:






There were other stations that had her picture books, non-fiction books, and her biography from her website. The kids really enjoyed getting to read some of these books and take some time to look at them. Here's a few pictures of the fun:



















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