#GRAAmy fun

Our first grade students are participating in the Global Read Aloud 2015. We are reading Amy Krouse Rosenthal's books and loving them.  I think she writes such clever stories and students get something more out of them each time they hear them.  

Our latest read Exclamation Mark led to some great conversation about what we are good at.  After reading and discussing Exclamation Mark, students made their mark by telling us what they are good at...with an exclamation mark for punctuation! We created class books to share.  Check them out on our library website @ http://pwlib.weebly.com/grade-1.html.

Students also practiced our photography skills with the iPads. I used Youblisher to create the online flipbook.  

Here are a couple of my favorites: