Happy November! This month in the Reading Center we will be focusing on the genre of Historical Fiction. With Thanksgiving and Veteran’s Day on the way, I always feel that this is a great time of year to explore this genre. We will learn about significant historical events. We will also learn how to decipher between historical fact and fictional aspects of a given story.
One of the stories we will read is Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki. This book describes a Japanese American boy’s journey through a WWII internment camp and his struggle to be accepted by the Americans around him, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. We will also read A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting. This is a beautiful story of a special day that a grandmother celebrates each year commemorating her immigration to a America. The story’s setting is Liberty Island in NYC. Additionally, we will read the story Thank you, Sarah, which is a story about the woman who pushed for Thanksgiving to become a national holiday. Students in grades K-2 will learn about pioneer life through the Little House on the Prairie picture book series.
Please talk to your children about what they are reading. We will appreciate your interest and it will encourage them to continue reading books they enjoy. Also, stress the importance of returning library books in a timely manner so that other students can enjoy them.