Favorite books

Hello,

The fourth grade was put in charge of putting together a school wide election in conjunction with this year's national presidential election.  We decided to make it about books instead of Obama vs. Romney.  We decided that we would have the school vote on favorite picture books, since many of the younger students aren't into chapter books yet.  We split non-fiction and fiction books into their own political parties (the Chickadees and the Pinecones).  Each class had up until today to make a nomination for favorite picture book in each category.  Our class nominees were: The Giving Tree, If I Built a Car, Dooby Dooby Moo, Bad Day at Riverbend, Calvin and Hobbes, The Gardener, The Dumb Bunnies, The Polar Express, Gleam and Glow, Betty Doll, and Tsunami!  The Dumb Bunnies won the Chickadee nomination from our class.  Tsunami! won the Pinecone nomination.  We will find out the candidates from the other classes, and then later next week have primary elections.  Once we have narrowed it down to two candidates, we will have our school-wide elections.  Ask your child which "candidates" they supported today.

This blog is going to be very short tonight.  I just finished a fourth grade team meeting, and now I am overdue for a retirement party. 

Our class will be putting together a class newspaper.  Either your child is on the newspaper staff or they were elected to our new congress.  Either way, they have new important jobs. 

I've really got to run.  Drop me a line if you have a question.

Mr. Shea