This year for the Books in Bloom project, we are using our Community Read, "Life is Good" as inspiration. Every month we read a picture book with a theme related to that month's superpower. I love reading 'little kid' books and picture books even though we are in 5th grade. We this discussed this idea with the March superpower of FUN and Dr. Seuss. He made younger books 'fun' as a way to make them enjoyable to little readers, however many of them also would deliver a deeper message that you don't quite understand, until you are older.
During last month's discussion on LOVE, we read "I Love You Stinky Face". I found it while going through Logan's books. In doing so, I came across "Giraffe's Can't Dance" and thought how well it fit in to ALL superpowers. We read it last month, as well as this month, and discussed how it would be cool to incorporate into a Books in Bloom project.
We split the ten superpowers in half for each class. Then, we split into smaller groups to tackle each superpower and connect it to the book. YOU then brainstormed ideas of how we could display this information in a floral/springy type of way. We took little ideas from each class and formed one big super fun idea. We even started creating Gerald out of recycled materials, which wasn't part of the original plan, but an added bonus!
Stay tuned to see the final project....
What are your feelings on reading "little kid" books in 5th grade? Why do you think it is beneficial? Comment below!
I feel that is great to refresh our memories of the great stories read to us as a little kid. When we were littler, we never realized the great life lessons and real meanings of the books we read.
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