Come Enjoy the Book Fair!

Hello families!

This week the book fair has begun at school.  Don't you just love these original posters that the kids made?  What creative ideas our class has! 

The fair is in the lower commons right next door to our classroom.  Today your children got to preview the fair and wrote down some wishes for their home library.  I also created a class wish list so that if you would like to donate a book for all of us to enjoy, you could. 

If you would like to send money and an order form along with your child, we have shopping hours tomorrow.  If not, then please feel free to come in an enjoy the book fair at your leisure after school this week.  Thank you for supporting our school!  And thank you to all the parents who organized and are running our book fair.  It is so nice to have such involved families.

This might be a nice time to think about your family's reading plans for the coming summer months.  Most of the friends are ready to be reading easy reader level books.  They should be practicing with easy stories with a bigger font to continue their learning and to gain confidence as a reader.  Having some of these level books at home can be great because they often like to read books continually until they feel that they have mastered them.  I see this a lot at school, and that feeling of excitement of having read a book on your own is magical.  (The duration of a library check out can be just the amount of time needed to feel like you have mastered a book from start to finish!)  And, as usual, it is important for your kids to continue to hear you reading to them daily as well.    Both of these types of reading are great practice for different reasons. 

Also, last week I made little notes for the kids using a new kit I bought myself recently.  I was indulging in a bit of fun memories from my childhood, do you remember these?  The kids were asking where I got this kit (West Elm on sale...of all places!) and if I could put it up so they could look into having one at home some day.  The kids were very interested in how these work and also in the mathematical motion of the outcome design. So interesting.


Here's what it looks like...

Well this is just a mid week mini post to get you excited about the book fair.  I hope it is fun to see what kinds of books are out there and what interests your children are sharing in their choices. 

Enjoy your night!  Love, Jennifer