September's Book Nook

The September's Book Nook was held on Tuesday and we had 16 students that attended. There was great conversation about the book Captain Nobody. We had our first PTA sponsored drawing for the next month's book. All of the students' names, that participated in the Book Nook, were put into a drawing for our next book. Rachel won the new book, Flight of the Phoenix. Congratulations!

Captain Nobody Questions

Click here for the the Captain Nobody questions. They are due to Mrs. Appelman by September 2nd. Rememeber to really think about and share your thoughts when completing the questions. Mrs. Appelman's Book Nook will be held on September 6th.

Captain Nobody

Captain Nobody will be the first official Sunshine State Reader for KTE in August. I have purchased my copy already and will begin reading it this weekend. If you want to get ahead, start with Captain Nobody so  you will be ready to answer the questions when I post them.

You can also go to the Captain Nobody Official link by clicking here!

2011-12 Book Nook Schedule

Do you want to get a head start in reading the Sunshine State Readers for the upcoming school year.

Click here for the 2011-12 Book Nook Schedule. 

Mrs. Appelman has started reading the Sunshine State Readers. I am almost done with my first book Out of My Mind. The July book that I will be reading is Umbrella Summer. Due to time, I will not have a Book Nook talk on these books, but encourage for you to read with me anyways over the summer. The first book I will have a Book Nook talk on is Captain Nobody. Since we will only be in school for 2 weeks in August, I encourage all that want to participate start reading before we return to school. Enjoy your summer and Happy Reading!!!!!!!!!

Summer Reading for Mrs. Appelman

I received a Amazon Kindle from my family and it allows me to download books. In fact, I can carry hundreds of books in this little device. While looking at the books I could buy, I found one of the new Sunshine State Readers for 2011-12 school year and I downloaded it.

So if you want to know what Mrs. Appelman is reading, the book is Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper.

As I began to read, I realized I really had no idea what this story was going to be about from the story's title. We often use the title of books to predict what may happen in the story. My predictions were all wrong! So as I started to read, I had to adjust my predictions from the story and began using my questioning strategy.

I hope you have started your summer reading!!!!!!

The Girl Who Could Fly

Our May book is The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester. Click here for the questions.

The questions are due June 6th and the Book Nook will be held on Tuesday June 7th.

I hope to see you there!

Next School Year's Sunshine State Readers for 2011-2012

Master List of Titles 2011 - 2012

Grades 3-5

Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Program

Barrows, Annie The Magic Half

Buckley, Michael NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society

Clements, Andrew  Extra Credit
Draper, Sharon M.   Out of My Mind

Graff, Lisa Umbrella Summer

Jonell, Lynne The Secret of Zoom

Klise, Kate Dying to Meet You

LaFevers, R.L. Flight of the Phoenix

Lin, Grace Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Look, Lenore Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

Mills, Claudia How Oliver Olson Changed the World
Pitchford, Dean Captain Nobody
Thomson, Sarah L.     Dragon's Egg

Yee, Lisa Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally)

 

Barrett, Tracy The 100-year-old Secret