Monday, January 23, 2012

Blue is for...

... Bluebonnets and Bluebonnet Voting and Blueberry Pie!!


Somehow the fall semester has come and go, and the Christmas holiday with it, and we are well into January and it is time to vote for our favorite Bluebonnet Book.  The students in third, fourth and fifth grades will be voting all week on the library computers.  Before each class votes, we are taking a look at the books that we have shared together on this year's Master List and determining what genre they fall under and what the author's purpose was in writing the book.  We are making genre pies and adding the titles of the books we have read under the correct slice ~ narrative, poetry or expository.  The students and I are taking things one step further by determining the "sub-genre" for each book, so once we decide a book is expository, we figure out if it is a memoir, biography, autobiography or informational text.  Doing so has helped me see the balance in the overall Master List and helped the children realize the merits and pleasure of reading all types of books.


Stay tuned for the results of our voting!