Today, 14 fifth grade readers attended the literature festival at Rockhurst University. We met authors Patricia Polacco and Brian Selznick. They were great presenters. Read all about our experiences, opinions, and thoughts about the authors.
This will be my last post as a teacher-librarian for Liberty Public Schools. After 30 years of teaching, I will be retiring at the end of this school year. I will continue teaching next year at Kansas City International Academy. I will totally be switching roles and can't wait to help middle school students work on their reading skills. I have already started immersing myself in middle school reading by viewing webinars, rereading several books on the topics of reading and literacy ( The Cafe Book and The Daily 5 ), and reading several new books that will help me manage the structure necessary for successful guided reading. On the other hand, I am also going full speed in the library as well. We are ending the year by wrapping up Genius Hour projects, art bots, creating books on topics we are passionate about, introducing next year's Missouri award books, and getting summer reading off the ground so our LC kiddos keep on reading! Several of us are also totally reva
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Brian, on the other hand was very funny and talked about his book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. He showed us a silent film that inspired Hugo Cabret.
Overall, it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We also met Patricia Palacco. She had great stories and was very funny. We got to wish on a magic metor and she showed us a quilt that has been in her family for a long time because a girl named Anna sewed it with her mom, out of her favorite clothing. I had a really fun time and I hope I get to go back next year. :)
Brian inspired me to actually study your goals and try your hardest to get to the goals. I also thought he liked to stand out because those purple pants said it all!:) but he inspired me to go out into the world and find who you are.
Brian Snelznick was wonderful too! My first impression of him was a strange younger version of Clark Kent!(No offense.)Brian showed us some of process of writting his book and becoming a children's book author! We even got to see the slilent flim that inspired the book! He answered very good questions, and I can't wait till next year when I read all Trumans and Marktwains again! :)