Janice LAST_NAME via Hasafran wrote:
Hi! I am meeting with our Religious School 4th graders this Tuesday
afternoon so they can select a book to hopefully check out for Jewish
Book Month. I have about a half an hour. Rather than just me standing
up front and doing a book chat,
....an activity ... choose a book out on display, spend 5-10 minutes
browsing ...share observations Has anyone done any kind of activity
like this and suggestions on how to make it work?
Sounds mega-cute. I was in 4th grade once upon a time.
Hmmm.... You only have about 30 minutes.
How many little tykes are there?
Here's a thought, slightly off-centre and to one side:
Since you are short on time, and perhaps the point of the exercise is to
get mini-discussions going, how's about putting out
picture/not-so-many-words books designed for 1st-2nd graders and maybe
ask, if when they were "little", they would have liked a certain book
or if their kid sister/brother might like it. They'll be attracked to
the art, read it lickety-split, and maybe everyone will get a chance to
say something in the time-slot.
Here in the Sinagoga La Javurá, it works with the adults in our hebrew
language classes. If I put out adult-ish books they bawk like I just
asked them to eat spinach or take out the trash or pick up their room.
_A Quick Aside because nostalgia seems to have overcome me_::
When I was a kid a b'zillion years back in 5th grade, at the end of the
day and if we had tided up the classroom all shipshape and Bristol
fashion before the final bell, our teacher would read 10-15 minutes from
Winnie-the-Pooh. The other one was Charlotte's Web. We loved it
I remember a discussion once about how Blueberries For Sal continued to
win, for years and years and then yet another year, the glorious award
of being the most never-returned book to the public library. Here in
Valencia the Harry Potter books are kept on a perky shelf BEHIND the
check out desk.
Anybody else want to chime in?
Hugz and kissez
Alba Toscano
Sinagoga La Javurá
Valencia (Spain)
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