The first four weeks of summer vacation are over. There are still six weeks to go, and that fact makes me a little giddy. It hasn’t all been fun and games. Yes, it’s been mostly fun and games, but I have been doing some serious professional reading, too. I am a PD facilitator for my school and in 2014-15, we are focusing on the Common Core Reading standards. Woohoo! Last year we focused on Math and I had to fake knowing what I was talking about. This year I feel as though I am in my element. But, to give myself a head start, I’m reading The Pathways to the Common Core by Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth and Chris Lehman.
I’m not plowing through it. I’m reading a section every morning as I drink my coffee. It is rather readable and explains things very well.
My other professional reading pile is made up of OBOB books. I have read half of the books so far:
The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester by Barbara O’Connor
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
The Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin
The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
I have the other half to go.
Gaby, Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes
Kizzy Ann Stamps by Jeri Watts
A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole
Sasquatch by Roland Smith
Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Tales from the Odyssey, Part One by Mary Pope Osborne
The Year of the Book by Andrea Cheng
I hope your summer reading plans are progressing as nicely as mine!
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