Global Read Aloud Week 1

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Harrison School is proudly participating in the Global Read Aloud program! With this exciting program, students from all around the world are reading the same book at the same time and connecting with each other in various ways.   This past week was the first week of the program and most of our 2nd and 3rd grade students read The North Star by Peter H. Reynolds.  The students were excited because they were already familiar with Peter H. Reynolds from when we participated in the International Dot Day back in September.  If you haven't read The North Star yet, the book is about finding your own journey and following your own dreams.  After we finished reading the book, the students had LOTS of predictions about what might happen next for the boy's journey in the book.

I created a Padlet for the book and shared it with others participating in the Global Read Aloud program.  If you are not familiar with Padlet, it is basically like an electronic sticky note and it is one of the easiest programs to use.  Students from 11 different schools from across the United States and Canada posted their dreams and thoughts onto our Padlet!!  How cool is that??

Created with Padlet

In addition,  our new friends in Grand Rapids, MI in Mrs. Gauck's classroom created a very cool Tackk about the book which both of our 2nd grade classrooms responded to.   A Tackk is an easy way to create a beautiful webpage or poster and can be shared with others to collaborate or comment on.

I can't wait to see where the Global Read Aloud takes us next week!!