I mentioned yesterday that Dan Gutman will be coming to our school for our Young Author's Day. Usually our author comes in the spring, but Dan was available in early October so we jumped at the chance. The downside is that everyone will be crazy busy with back-to-school. But I have a few tricks up my sleeve:
- I have encouraged everyone to make their back-to-school bulletin board do double duty as their author bulletin board. To emulate Gutman's My Weird School series teachers can create a board rhyming their name. So if your name is Mrs. Fry your board might say: Mrs. Fry's Class is Soaring High....and you might have a hot air balloon with the name of each student.
- We always create a board in our lobby with pictures of the entire staff to help new families on back-to school-night. Title of this board? The Not Weird Teachers of (Insert school name here).
- In honor of Gutman's Million Dollar series I'm thinking of labeling The Million Dollar Office, The Million Dollar Water Fountain or The Million Dollar Lunch Room.
Do your students love The Weird School Series? Listed below is a pdf Teacher's Guide.
You can find this and other fun things at Dan Gutman's website.
What types of activities have you done for Young Author's Day or Author's Visit. Let me know!
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