Hello Falcons,
It's been exciting to get back to school after our Thanksgiving break. The Book Fair started on Tuesday and one of the Second Grade students ran up and shared her book with me. It was all about Cats & Dogs or maybe Kittens & Puppies. What I do recall was the absolute joy this student had in showing me pictures from the book; the activities within, an article on this, on article on that, a place to draw in, the two little plastic dog and cat figurines that were embedded in the front cover of the book, and the jokes in the book, in particular the ones that ended with the punchline "ruff." She spent a good five minutes of her time at recess telling me about the book; how much she liked it, what it was about, and how she loves animals. The joy the book gave her was palpable. As she ran off to join her friends and tell them about her book I couldn't help but marvel at the power of a book. I thought of a favorite quote from Carl Sagen:
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." From Cosmos part 11
I hope your students and you find the magic that is a book.
Have a great week everyone.
Jokes of the Day - Highlights
Of all the inventions in the world the Dry Erase Board is the most....
Re-markable
Where do pirates get their hooks?
The secondhand store
What did the Fisherman say to the magician?
Pick a Cod, any Cod
