Wow! I’m going to share with you the start of our March
Madness: Tournament of Books, but first let me say I think the kiddos took “madness”
to heart! State Testing + Indoor Recess Weather = Madness in Room 21. Hopefully, just like the weather in March, they will be in like a lion, out like a lamb!
Luckily, despite the silliness, we are still learning! Last
week I changed our bulletin board in anticipation of the start of our March
Madness. It’s not too late to join in, seeing as the correlating tournament has
yet to begin! I found my vision from Brown Bag Teacher and she has
GREAT, FREE resources to get you started! I changed them a bit to work with my
class but it was a great visual to get me started!
First, I made a list of the books we’ve read as a class or that are always flying off our class library shelves. Then, I paired the
favorites together (Dr. Seuss competed against Dr. Seuss, Grace for President
competed against Duck for President.)
The actual creating the brackets on the board took some thought
and planning, but still managed to turned out how I imagined.
This week we discussed what the actual NCAA Men's Basketball Championship was and
the similarities to our own Tournament of Books. The first round of books were
Dr. Seuss, which worked out perfectly with his birthday! The Lorax went up
against Bartholomew and the Oobleck and won. To cast their vote students completed
a book review. Slowly and painfully our book reviews are improving. It’s
shocking sometimes how quickly students forget how to write a summary. I’ll
chalk it up to our weird week again.
As our class bookie, and in my professional opinion, I think
the best bet is Diary of a Wimpy Kid
or The Day the Crayons Quit.
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