ROOM ON THE BROOM First graders listened to Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, then they all got to work to design a new and improved broom for the witch and other creatures. They were very creative and came up with some great features to allow more passengers to ride the broom! HALLOWEEN STORIES All the grades enjoy hearing Halloween and scary stories, so October is fun! Books such as C reepy Carrots, Big Pumpkin, Pumpkin Jack, The Monsterator, I Want My Mummy, The Bones of Fred McPhee, The Tailypo, are a few we have been enjoying. Mary Shelley and Intro to Science Fiction I shared the book She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lynn Fulton with 4th graders. We learned that Shelley was only 18 when she began writing Frankenstein, and how in the early 1800's it was considered scandalous for a women to be writing such a dreadful story. According to the a...
Mrs. Ferguson shares booklists, websites, and what is going on in the Blessed Sacrament School library. BSS is a Preschool - Grade 8 Catholic school located in Walpole, Massachusetts.