Spooktacular Stories!

Kindergarten

This week we read the story Where’s My Mummy? By Carolyn Crimi, an Illinois author. Little Baby Mummy wants to play one more game of "hide- and- shriek" before going to bed. While searching for his Mama Mummy he encounters creatures of the night. When a scritchy- scratchy sound scares baby Mummy, Mama Mummy comes to the rescue. After the story we made a text to self connection by discussing what our moms do when we are scared. Students were able to checkout other stories written by the author during checkout time.

First Grade

First grade students were introduced to a story read online. The students were engaged in the book Stellaluna by Jannell Cannon and read by Pamela Reed. Before reading we discussed how people feel about bats and the difference between books online and movies. Afterwards some us changed our opinions on bats. Before the story we thought they were all scary and mean, but after reading we learned that there are over 800 different kinds of bats and only 3 of those are the scary "vampire" bats we hear about in scary stories. We also learned that the online book used pictures from the actual story, but made them come to life. In the story Stellaluna immitates birds so we made a connection by playing charades and acting out animals for our friends to guess.

Second Grade

Second graders listened to our book this week on a CD. We heard the book Tell Me Another Scary Story but not too scary written and read by Carl Reiner. Afterwards we used our listening skills to play a game of Halloween bingo. We had to listen carefully to a picture description and find the matching picture on our game board. Then we decoded a secret message from the teacher!