To celebrate reading and this special day, many authors volunteer their time to offer FREE Skype sessions with teachers and librarians around the world. Author Kate Messner does a fabulous job of organizing a list of authors and making it available to educators.
This year in our library, Harrison students were lucky to be able to connect with others in several different ways!
First graders Skyped with author Julie Segal-Walters! Julie told us about the eight things that writers need (including cozy socks!!) and she read to us her book This is Not a Normal Animal Book.
Junior high students Skyped with author Brooks Benjamin! Brooks led the students in a short activity that showed our students how to find fun ideas for writing stories and answered student questions.
Kindergarten students Skyped with Mrs. Loesch's kindergarten students in Lake Zurich. Mrs. Loesch and I read two Elephant & Piggie books aloud together: Can I Play Too? and My Friend is Sad. It was so fun reading books together!
Several of our fourth grade students had the opportunity to listen to four different authors talk during a Facebook live event hosted by Scholastic. Peter Reynolds, Ross Burach, Carmen Deedy, and Sayantani DasGupta each talked about reading and read aloud from one of their books. Peter Reynolds has a new book coming out soon, Say Something, and it's definitely a book to order!!
Finally, several of our third grade students listened to Rosie Revere Engineer read aloud from one of the astronauts on the space station (not live, but still cool!).
It was an AMAZING day connecting with others and celebrating a love of reading!!
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