Countdown Day 8!
Our countdown to vacation book reveal continued today with the unwrapping and shared reading of the book No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart. Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it’s made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist? The inquisitive students in room 302 should be able to answer all of those questions now. In addition to learning the science of the role that monkeys play in the making of chocolate, students also studied the text genre and structure, noticing the three layers of text in the book and the important role the two little bookworms on each spread play. In addition, they discovered just what a growth mindset Melissa Stewart, the author, has. By studying a timeline of the creation of the book from the moment of inspiration to publication, students discovered that Melissa spent ten years working on this book! Her book was rejected by publishers many times, but she never gave up. Today's snack was bananas for everyone (the chocolate came later in the day!).
Stay tuned for tomorrow's book reveal!
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