Tomorrow's Alphabet with Room 3

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Today we read Tomorrow's Alphabet by George Shannon. The second graders had to use their brains to figure out the word for each letter. Here's an example:

A is for seed ... tomorrow's APPLE.

Can you figure out the answers to the following?

• B is for egg, tomorrow's ____________________
• D is for puppy, tomorrow's ____________________
• I is for water, tomorrow's ____________________
• J is for pumpkin, tomorrow's ____________________
• K is for tomato, tomorrow's ____________________
• M is for caterpillar, tomorrow's ____________________
• N is for twigs, tomorrow's ____________________
• O is for acorn, tomorrow's ____________________
• R is for grapes, tomorrow's ____________________
• T is for bread, tomorrow's ____________________
• X is for bone, tomorrow's ____________________

Common Core standard addressed: L.2.5 - Demonstrate understanding of word relationships

Room 2 Checkout Day

On checkout days, I like to have activities for the kids to participate in once they've selected their book(s). Today, we had two options:

1. Practice your alphabet skills with this game from Learning Planet

2. Work on puzzles.

Some kids opted to read their books with their friends, which is great too. I read Creepy Carrots to the kids last year, and Mrs. DeMarzo read Duck Soup, both of which were in demand today.

RICBA Book Trailers 2

Here are a few of the other titles that kids were interested in, but we ran out of time to watch:


Gaby, Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes
click on title to access book trailer on Scholastic's site

Doll Bones by Holly Black




Athlete vs. Mathlete by WC Mack

RICBA Book Trailers 1

Room 9 went through the Rhode Island Children's Book Award list today and watched book trailers for several of the titles. We didn't have time to see all of them, but here's what we did get to:


Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
click on title to access book trailer on SchoolTube


Spirit Animals by Brandon Mull




Rump by Liesl Shurtliff




Charlie Bumpers v. The Teacher of the Year by Bill Harley



Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle

September Reading Ideas

Hampden Meadows Librarian Mrs. Roy, in Barrington, put together this fantastic list of authors with September birthdays. Take a look ... anything you'd like to request, you can place a hold via RICAT.