Fifth graders have been working their way through the Massachusetts Children's Book Award nominations. The cool thing about this award? Students across Massachusetts vote for the winner-- NOT grownups!
In order to vote in March, students must read at least five of the titles. Each week in library, we have a check in to see what new titles were read, who's in the middle of something and who wants to share about a book.
Before the break, each fifth grade teacher and I hosted a "chat and chew" -- students ate lunch in their classroom while we chatted about MCBA books!
In 5D, our theme focused on the three graphic novel nominations (Roller Girl, Coral Reefs and Inspector Flytrap. We actually spent most of our time discussing Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson:
In 5E, our theme focused on the three most-read books from the nominations (the Nest-- which was 5E's class read-aloud, Roller Girl and Coral Reefs):
Both chat n' chews were a success and we'll be hosting others in the future with different book themes.
Random coincidence-- 5D's chat n' chew was all girls and 5E's was all boys!
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