Our class just finished reading a book together. The book is called Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology and it was a biography about an amazing woman. For each chapter, students volunteered to generate discussion questions and to highlight challenging or unknown vocabulary words. We would read a chapter, then get together to discuss it. Some pretty deep discussions took place, including one about the positives and negatives of being a perfectionist. We enjoyed the book and loved discussing it with each other.
As a group, we decided to continue having book clubs. We decided to put small groups together (you can ask your child how groups were arranged) and today, new books were selected. Each group chose their own book, and a few groups selected two books and chatted with me about which would be the best choice. The book clubs are keeping their own records and having a facilitator for each meeting. The first book club meeting was today, and the pictures above show each group happily diving in to their first chapters. I'm excited about this experience!
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