Donorschoose pictures!

Our Donorschoose books arrived last week!   I am using them for many different lessons. For example, the Pig, Pigs, Piggie book is perfect for teaching first graders to look through a word because words can have different endings. The Owl Diaries books are wonderful for teaching children the diary genre, and I included the entire Mercy Watson series because our class set was torn and tattered from the loving use of previous classes of first graders.

In our classroom, we read all day long. Children come to school and read in our class library while they wait for their friends to arrive. They are in the library if they finish their snack early, and they always have a book in hand when they wait for buses at the end of the day. These times are in addition to their regularly scheduled daily literacy block, so they read, read, read all day long.

Thank you to all of the families who donated!  You have helped your child, sixteen first graders in this year's class, and future classes of first graders learn to read!