Who Can Participate?

Any interested third grade student who attends FRES can sign up starting September 5.
Registration closes September 30, 2007. To Register, visit the informational website. From that site, email Ms. Pollitt. Include in email:

• Student's Name
• If your child has access to the Internet at home
  
• any of the software programs listed below that your child has access to outside of school.

In January, we will be invited students from Bollman Bridge, Laurel Woods, Hammond, and Gorman Crossing to join the club.
Hope to hear from you!

How Does this Book Club Work?

Every Month:

• Third Grade teachers and students will meet as a team and share the book report assignment for the month.

• Students will check the blog for the book club assignment. (It will align with the project the entire third grade was assigned)

• I will post, not only the assignment, but also a list of five appropriate books. Students will have three days to email me which book they chose to read. If I don't get an email, I will assign a book.

• I will post a list of who is reading which book. Depending on the number of students and the project for the month, the students will either choose a group or I will assign groups.

• Each student has 2 weeks to read the book. As students are reading, they must participate in an online discussion about the book, either by posting a blog or commenting on a post. Students must post/comment at least twice per book. Posts/comments can be a summary, questions, vocabulary discussions, or even just thoughts/feelings (like/dislike, compare to another book, how it relates to them, favorite part, etc)

• Each group will complete a “book report”. Each month the project will change.

• Students will present their project to their classes on book report day (every student in the team presents to their homeroom).

• I will post each project to the blog.

Technology and Software

Students will be using many different technologies and software programs to participate in this book club.

• Mac computers
• Internet
• Blogs
• Digital Cameras
• PowerPoint
• iMovie
• Wikis
• ComicLife
• Video Camera
• Email
• Podcasting

In order to participate students need to have an email account. Please let me know if your child needs to create an account.

Welcome!

Thank you for stopping by our blog. We will be using this blog to discuss many different books and to post many book reports.

Each month I will post five book titles. Participants will have three days to choose a book and inform me, by email, of their choice. Students will form groups based on book choice and will complete a book "report". Students will create comic strips, ebooks, podcast, iMovies, and PowerPoint slideshows.