From the Library

Second grade revisited prairie life by reading Patricia MacLachlan's Newbery-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall. We then read Donald Hall's Oxcart Man and imagined walking ten days to the market, selling everything, buying a few items, walking ten days back, only to start all over again. We read The Lion's Share, a great portrayal of how quickly "half of what's left" is only a crumb, and how quickly "twice as many"means the elephant promising to bake 256 peanut butter pound cakes. We revisited beloved Tim Egan, author of the Dodsworth books we read at the beginning of the year, to read Burnt Toast on Davenport Street, complete with a magic fly who grants three wishes but accidentally turns a toaster into a squirrel and mean dogs into toasters. We dipped into non-fiction with Owen and Mzee, a true story of an unlikely friendship between a tortoise and a baby hippo.