Projects galore!

Our readers have been busy for the past three weeks creating their book projects. We have artists making posters, rappers recording their tunes, and film makers. We will be sharing their projects at our end-of-book-club celebration on May 23.

Here's what Abbi and Sophie created for Half Magic:

And Josie, Charlie, Daisy, Mason and Agustin for Sideways Stories from Wayside School:

Alina and Yosola's Book Trailer

Our Rappers: Greg, Denham, Henry, Miles, Campbell and Meah

Wayside School Rap

Mason and Agustin help promote the book club

A Perfect Reading Day

We could not have asked for a more delightful day on Tuesday to launch session three of Hooked on Books!
After completing a short online questionnaire, students headed outside to the library patio for cookies, ice cream, and their new book. We spent the afternoon reading and discussing, Sideways Stories and Half Magic. What fun!

Session 3

The Spring Session of Hooked on Books will begin on Tuesday, April 11 and run through May 15. Readers will meet from 3:30-4:30 in the library.
We will be reading:


Sideways stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachra.

The Gorillas of Gill Park by Amy Gordon

Half Magic by Edward Eager

If you are interested, be sure to have your parent register here. We looking forward to sharing these great books with you!

Projects unveiled

The Hooked on Books readers have had a busy session, focusing on a number of book projects.
They each created trading cards of their favorite characters to share. Then they chose a project to dive into. They have worked very hard to bring their books to life.
We have been sharing them for the past couple of weeks--what a fun time!



Breakout!

Ready for Session Two!

On January 4th we began our second session of the Hooked on Books Book Club. We have 26 students attending this session---that's a lot of readers!
Over the holiday break, students read their chosen book, either Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko, The Mostly True Adventures  of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick, or The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill. We began our first meeting with students acting out a scene from their book:

Finishing our trading cards

This week, we used Big Huge Labs to create character trading cards from our sketches. They came out great! Each student will get five of their design to keep or trade.

Talking about books and imagining characters

Today we spent some time in our discussion groups talking about our books. Readers then worked on a draft of a  trading card of a book character. Mrs. Mullens  finished with a fun game of two truths and a lie. Another fun meeting of the Hooked on Books book club!