I know, I know.  It’s been a few weeks since I updated our book wall.  Halloween, conferences and report cards got in the way.  Sorry. 🙂

But here we are now, and we have LOTS of new books to share.  And you know, as I look at the wall filling up, I’m so glad we decided to flip it over those few weeks ago because it’s allowed kids to better see the books and also for them to help put them on the wall!

Here’s our wall as of yesterday:

We’re up to 148!!  We’re a little behind where we were at this point last year, but remember how I told you we have more teachers and kiddos participating?  It makes me feel absolutely ok that the number of BOOKS is less because the number of KIDS involved is bigger and that matters so much more. 🙂

This week we added many books about pumpkins and Halloween, since we celebrated that holiday in 1st grade on Wednesday, and also because of our Literary Lantern project.   We’re also in the middle of a how-to unit, and all of those things work so nicely together! Here’s what we put on the wall over the last 5 days:

What have you been reading?  We’re reading A LOT and LOVING IT!! 🙂