Skipped week 3. I was doing things.
My district has a new K2 curriculum. I’m cool with it. It’s not all encompassing, and pretty much all of it is practices that I’ve been doing in my classroom already. So I’m responding to implementing much of it a lot better than I’ve responded to any previous curriculums that I’ve been told to use. The first 6-week unit is, ‘Community’, beginning with the sub-theme, “friendship”. They recommend quite a few picture books, on friendship. I use different books on “friendship” other than the recommended list, but a few of them I will use. I will note if the read aloud choice was a suggestion from my district’s new K2 curriculum. If you see a lot of titles with the word ‘Friends’ in my weekly read aloud posts, you now know why.
Here’s what we read last week:
Monday
Everett Anderson’s Friend by Lucille Clifton. Illustrated by Ann Grifalconi.
Everett Anderson’s Friend
By Lucille Clifton
Illustrated by Ann Grifalconi
Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1976
OUT OF PRINT
Tuesday
True Friends by John Kilaka
True Friends
By John Kilaka
Published by Groundwood Books. 2006
Wednesday
Fresh Fish by John Kilaka
Fresh Fish
By John Kilaka
Published by Groundwood Books. 2005
Thursday
The Book of Mean People By Toni Morrison & Slade Morrison. Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre
The Book of Mean People
By Toni Morrison & Slade Morrison
Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre.
Published by Disney-Hyperion. 2002
OUT OF PRINT
Friday
Da Goodie Monsta by Robert Peters
Da Goodie Monsta
By Robert Peters
Published by Wiggles Press. 2009
What The Teacher (me) is Reading, This Week:
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
By bell hooks
Published by Routledge. 2003
Thank you for reading The Picture Book Pusher
The Picture Book Pusher 