Last week the Kindergarten class began the Global Read Aloud. I have been a part of the Global Read A loud for 4 years and each year it continues to grow. Each week I will be reading a book selected from the Global ReadAloud and will connect to other classes reading the same book at the same time. This year the authour chosen is Julie Flett. Below is the breakdown of the books we’ll be reading in class. After reading My Heart fills with Happiness, everyone did their first writing activity of what fills their heart with happiness. As well,through a site called Flipgrid, we watched children in New York share what made them happy. We listened to the book Wild berries as an orchestra sang this book and some of the words were repeated in Cree. The concept of children all over the world reading the same book at the same time and sharing their thoughts and ideas is very exciting. This then led to a wonderful discussion of what does it mean to be Global and we read a book exactly with that title. I’ve added a short video of what the Global Read A loud is all about and am very excited to be sharing this in Kindergarten this year.
Today we had our first monthly school Rosh Chodesh Assembly. As well we had our second Library visit. Please remember to send back the book by the following Wednesday in order to be able to choose a new one. Thanks to everyone for responding to Madelaine’s request for water bottle caps. I will be using them for a literacy centre for learning sight words. You can keep on sending them in!
Breakdown of the Global Read Aloud Books
Week 1: My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith and Julie Flett
Week 2: Wild Berries by Julie Flett
Week 3: You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Danielle Daniel
Week 4: A Day with Yayah by Nicola I. Campbell and Julie Flett
Week 5: When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson and Julie Flett
