Festival of Stories

Reading Makes Me Feel Good!

The Festival of Stories had its first great week. All the first grade classes are focusing on different authors. We have been reading books by Tomie dePaola. Some of his characters are Strega Nona, The Barkers and Tomie himself when he was a little boy. The books are wonderful and soon we will choose our favorite one. Next Tuesday, we are going to go to three other classes and learn a bit about other authors. When the other students come to our class, Ms. Analu will read the book we choose as our favorite. We think they will love it too.

Also this week, we shared our favorite books and talked about our favorite characters. We had poetry breaks and we also started reading the books running for the Big Splash Award.

Today was the best day of all! It was our Pajama Day! We all wore our pajamas to school. Some of us also brought our blankies, flashlights and stuffed animals. In the morning, we made tents and turned all the lights off. We gathered in small groups under our tents and read books together with our flashlights. It was so much fun!

Then we went to the Elementary Theater to watch four performances by the Middle School Students from the Theater Club. They were amazing!! The skits were super fun and they even interacted with us. We did not want it to end.

At the end of the day, our reading buddies came to our class and we read more books by Tomie dePaola with them. It was fun!!

I bet next week will be just as fun!!