I'm going to start with Big Friends because I'm such a fan of the book! Two young friends use cardboard boxes and a hill to invent every game under the sun. Until a third player wants to join. How will this group figure out how to play with three people?
Big Friends covers so many core competencies (kind of the point!) and I could draw out multiple lessons from this book, including using it in an upper grade class to show how poetic prose can tell a powerful story! Add to library? Definitely! The second book is If You Give a Mouse an iPhone. I thought it was going to be a cute story a la the famous mouse/cookie theme. The problem is that it wasn't. It was yet another book aimed at how technology is the devil. Y'all. I'm so so so so tired of this joke premise. It and "bad lazy dad" premises can go right out the window. Tech isn't the devil. Tech is just a tool. If we aren't teaching kids how to use it properly (aka: our jobs!) they won't learn. Add to library? Please no.
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AuthorI respond to Sarah, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Smoore, Miss Sarah, (and sometimes Mom!). I have been an DL (homeschool!) teacher for 2 years and am now a proud member of the SD35 team! Archives
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