The Day of the Book

Our April PLUSS day was such a wonderful day!  We enjoyed "The Day of the Book" a vision of our Middle School Librarian, Mrs. Montrie.  As some of you in our community know, Mrs. Montrie is courageously fighting cancer and hasn't been in school for many months.  Mr. Scott and Mrs. Rutstein along with others were determined to make her vision a reality and that's just what they did!

On Monday, first graders made their selections for The Day of the Book from over 80 options.  All students in 1A were encouraged to select one session with our visiting Caldecott winning illustrator, Pamela Zagarenski.  This left two sessions for them to choose what they'd like to learn about.  Lower school and Middle School students and faculty members lead sessions ranging from book creation, cartooning, making bookworms, and playing games with a book theme.

Many of our 1A students blogged about their day on their personal blogs which you can access here:

http://kidblog.org/MissMunteansFriendsinFirst/

Take a peek at who has commented on the posts where her session was highlighted!  SO COOL!!

Our day wrapped up with an all LS and MS school DEAR  (Drop Everything And Read) time on the field and a LS Smackdown- a period of reflection.  

Hopefully your child came home with many positive things to say about this day as I think it was a day they really enjoyed and will remember for years to come.  

Because we were all spread out, I wasn't able to get too many photos, but managed to get a few here and there:

Illustrating with Pamela Zagarenski!

First graders, what was the highlight of your day?  Post a comment with all of us to share.