First grade girls started the year in Library by reading
Norton Juster’s Neville. (He is the
author of The Phantom Tollbooth.) Ask your
daughter how Neville made friends in his new neighborhood. We then became
Cynthia Rylant experts by reading one each of the series Poppleton, Henry and Mudge,
Annie and Snowball, and Mr. Putter
and Tabby. We finished that author study with The Relatives Came. We then read a couple of books about characters
who try to find their roles in the world: The
Crocodile who Didn’t Like Water
and Fritz Danced the Fandango. Next up was Mac Barnett’s The Skunk, a new book about a person who is at first annoyed by and
afraid of the skunk who follows him. Ask your daughter how he feels once the
skunk is gone. And we’ve just read the hilarious Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock,
a crowd favorite. Watch out if someone tries to trick you into saying "Isn't that a strange moss-covered rock?"
