It is hard to believe that we are at the end of another school year. It always amazes me how fast the time goes. This weekend, my first group of Waitsfield 1st Graders will be graduating from Harwood.
I hope you have enjoyed the year and found the classroom to be an open and welcoming place.
I would like to thank each and every family for the beautiful apple trees. It was a very generous and thoughtful gift (not to mention unnecessary). I have already planted them in my yard, and they look wonderful. The trees will be a living memory of the good times of the good times I had with this group.
Today your child will have their report card, a list of books (if people are looking for summer reading), and a copy of this blog. I wanted to make sure everyone received the thank you part of the blog entry.
I hope you have a wonderful summer and I look forward to seeing all of you in August.
Thank you again for a wonderful year.
Peace,
Tom
Reading List:
Second Grade and Third Grade Common Core Suggested Reading List
- My Father’s Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett
- “The Fire Cat,” Esther Averill
- Amos and Boris William Steig
- The Treasure Uri Shulevitz
- The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
- Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
- Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures Cythia Rylant
- Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens
- The Raft Jim LaMarche
- Poppleton in Winter Cynthia Rylant
- The Lighthouse Family: The Storm Cynthia Rylant
- The One-Eyed Giant Mary Pope Osborne
- Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa Erica Silverman
Poetry
- “Autumn,” Emily Dickinson
- “Who Has Seen the Wind?” Christina Rossetti
- “Afternoon on a Hill,” Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Robert Frost
- “Something Told the Wild Geese” Rachel Field
- “Grandpa’s Stories” Langston Hughes
- “A Bat is Born” Randall Jarrell
- “Knoxville, Tennessee” Nikki Giovanni
- “Weather” Eve Merriam
- “Eating While Reading” Gary Soto
Informational Texts
- A Medieval Feast Aliki
- From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons
- Bats: Creatures of the Night Joyce Milton
- Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions Around the World Selby Beeler
- Art around the World Heather Leonard
- Martin Luther King and the March on Washington Frances E. Ruffin
- So You Want to Be President? Judith St. George
- Crittercam Andrew Einspruch
- Boy, We Were Wrong About Dinosaurs Kathleen V. Kudlinski
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 Brian Floca
- ***See our REVIEW and Resources you could use with this book!***
- Where Do Polar Bears Live? Sarah L. Thomson
Read-Aloud Stories
- How the Camel Got His Hump Rudyard Kipling
- The Thirteen Clocks James Thurber
- Charlotte’s Web E.B. White
- ***See what we thought about reading this book and get other links to help with lesson planning!***
- The Cricket in Times Square George Selden
- The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt
- Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
- Sign Painter Allen Say
Read-Aloud Poetry
- “The Jumblies,” Edward Lear
- “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Robert Browning
- “Your World,” Georgia Douglas Johnson
- “The Song of the Jellicles” T.S. Elliot
- “Fireflies,” Paul Fleischman
Read-Aloud Informational Texts
- Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman
- The Story of the Ruby Bridges Robert Coles
- A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick
- If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People David J. Smith
- Ah, Music Aliki
- The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections Jan Mark
- What the World Eats Faith D’Aluisio
- Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature’s Footprints
- 14 Cows for America Carmen Agra Deedy
