At Briggs Reading Together Is Better in that change. A Kindness Celebration was held on October 31st. The classes who participated came to the media center for a fun game of Headbands with Ally’s impossible sketches and made a kindness banner for the media center. Students love reading when it is a fun group activity. Briggs Elementary students love reading together because together is better. Ready for some spooky fun? Students in Kindergarten - Second Grade went on a student led Ghost Walk on October 31st. They enjoyed a story at the gazebo about a big pumpkin retold by fourth grader Sofia Norris from the book Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman. Then they traveled to the chicken coop to learn how Jasper Rabbit deals with a scary pair of underwear from the book Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds as retold by fourth grader Avin Knotts. In the flower garden, fifth grader Mi’Kala Woods warned the students about a boo hag named Pruella from the book Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia McKissack. To finish the tour, sixth grader Romel Malloy tickled their funny bones with some ghost jokes he learned from the book Spooky Sillies : A Book of Ghost Jokes by Mark Moore. Kindness is contagious. Students in grades 4-6 did a school wide reading of the book Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt from August to October. Throughout the reading they answered daily trivia questions and Mrs. Keefe’s fourth grade class answered the most trivia questions. During morning meetings they also used the 7 Habits to analyze the main characters’ different situations and what they would do in similar ones. We saw the main character, Ally change throughout the story and the role kindness played Book Release Parties are the Bomb! Literally. We made stick bombs which are also called popsicle stick explosions. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney was released on November 5th. Twenty-three students pre-ordered the book and were invited to a book release party on November 7th. We used popsicle sticks to construct the cobra pattern. When released, the tension in the popsicle sticks caused quite an explosion. Some students had already read the entire book before the party and some had not finished it, but all were excited to be a part of the reading fun. The book release party was planned and executed by our Library Event Coordinators: Marley Rollins (6th grade), Emma Wentzel (6th grade), and Adonis Brown (6th grade). Sharing and reading stories is one of the most important things we can do to help our children succeed in school. Children read more when we make it fun. How can you make reading fun? Read with a child. Everything's better together, even
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