Happy 2017! With a new year, it is a new and fresh start to using the Marlin Literacy Blog again. So, here we go...
For the past five school years, we have had a school-wide focus on a book for an entire month. Each classroom receives a copy of the book. Teachers are given ideas for using the book with students. The book is promoted for that month.
Since funds are not always available, some months classrooms do not receive a book. However, this year, we have been creative. For first semester, the Book of the Month was a highlighted Marlin Library book. As second semester was about to begin, we were able to purchase books for each room.
For January 2017, our Book of the Month is titled The Three Questions (by Jon J. Muth and based on the story by Leo Tolstoy). The book centers around Nikolai and his desire to find the answers to the following questions:
When is the best time to do things?
Who is the most important one?
What is the right thing to do?
Here is a complete list of our Books of the Month over the past five years:
YEAR 1
November 2012—Those Shoes
by Maribeth Boelts
December 2012—Ruthie and
the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie by Laura Rankin
January 2013—Roller Coaster
by Marla Frazee
February 2013—Emily's Art
by Peter Catalanotto
March 2013—How to Heal a
Broken Wing by Bob Graham
April 2013—Duck! Rabbit!
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld
May 2013—Freedom Summer
by Deborah Wiles
YEAR 2
November 2013—The Wonderful
Happens by Cynthia Rylant
December 2013—The Dot
by Peter H. Reynolds
January 2014—This Moose
Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
February 2014—Our Tree
Named Steve by Alan Zweibel
March 2014—Courage by
Bernard Waber
April 2014—Max's Words
by Kate Banks
May 2014—Something
Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
YEAR 3
January 2015—Mr. George
Baker by Amy Hest
February 2015—Mustache
by Mac Barnett
April 2015—The Rain Stomper
by Addie Boswell
May 2015—Chowder by
Peter Brown
YEAR 4
February 2016—One Green
Apple by Eve Bunting
March 2016—Willow's
Whispers by Lana Button
April 2016—Better Than You
by Trudy Ludwig
May 2016—Spaghetti in a Hot
Dog Bun by Maria Dismondy
YEAR 5
August 2016—Argus by
Michelle Knudsen
September 2016—The Girl Who
Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett & Gary Rubinstein
October 2016—Richard Wright
and the Library Card by William Miller
November 2016—Me...Jane
by Patrick McDonnell
December 2016—The Giving
Tree by Shel Silverstein
For more information on this month's Book of the Month, visit the Marlin Elementary School webpage.
