March Book Madness
I started a project with my students this week called "March Book Madness" which is a twitter project. (#2016MBM). I work in a Montessori school and if you didn't know this about the Montessori philosophy, they do not believe in competition. The feeling is that if there is one winner, there are many, many losers and so just say no to competition. Except that the kids are completely out of their minds for any kind of competition. So ok, in this competition, the books are the winners (and really, so are the kids for reading all the books). I introduced some of the books this week but especially with the picture books, there were lots of them I hadn't read. So here are a few that I read this week. My new favorite picture book is called "Wolfie the Bunny" by Ame Dyckman. I'd read a lot of rave reviews about this one but somehow we'd never connected until today. I'm really sorry I waited so long because this one is awesome. It's abou...