The March Slice of Life Story Challenge
hosted by Two Writing Teachers
I don't always get to spend nine class periods reading and being read to. I found it quite a wonderful experience aside from one tech glitch for our first video chat. World Read Aloud Day makes my heart happy.
Today was World Read Aloud Day. I love getting to spend the day reading aloud with students and listening to them read aloud too. I heard poetry, Elephant & Piggie, The Pigeon, Dr. Seuss, Chester, Battle Bunny and many other funny books being shared aloud today.
A few classes were also able to have video chats with other classrooms outside of our community. That's always a treat. We read aloud and were read to as we shared our love of reading.
In a few classes we also read some Spanish. We read the book My Name is Gabriela. It's a bilingual picture book biography of Gabriela Mistral, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the story we learned about her childhood. She and her friends liked to sing songs and rhymes at recess like Los pollitos dicen. I remembered that we have a Spanish nursery rhyme book in our library. I found it and realized this song is quite popular so it must be on Youtube. It was fun to watch the video and attempt to sing along with with the 'pio pio pio' part.
I don't always get to spend nine class periods reading and being read to. I found it quite a wonderful experience aside from one tech glitch for our first video chat. World Read Aloud Day makes my heart happy.