Last year the library came up with a cool Bingo challenge for teachers with all kinds of book genres to try and if you got a Bingo you were put in for a prize at the end of the year. This year the challenge is slightly different, the squares have specific book titles that the library has to offer for us to read! Go Kerri!
So I have been reading, so far, an amazing book called Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. It tells the heartwarming story of a middle school girl who struggles with reading and writing, and she tries to hide it, with behaviors and other strategies. She gets a new teacher who is really smart and cares about her success and is also studying special education so he helps her to find out about how she can learn to read better. It turns out she has dyslexia! She gets help and it is still a long road, but it turns out that her hard work makes all the difference in her success. I highly recommend this book. Here is an excerpt that I loved!
"Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it's stupid." I think hard about that. Could it be that simple?
A mind movie flickers in my brain of an angry fish at the bottom of a tree, banging on the trunk with its fins and coplaining that it can't climb it.
I think of a turtle making a sandwich.
A snake playing the violin.
An elephant knitting.
Penguins playing basketball.
An eagle scuba diving.
But mostly I hope with every tiny bit of myself that Mr. Daniels is right about all of this. "
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