From the Library

Fifth graders read Sharon Creech's Granny Torelli Makes Soup over several library classes. Ask your daughter about Pardo and Violetta and the haircut and Marco, about Bailey, and Janine, and learning braille, and double Marco and beloved Granny herself and her pauses, about cavatelli (little dough canoes) and how Tutto Va Bene. This semester's library project is to read a book that's written in the form of diary entries or letters and then to write and present another entry. They have until spring break to complete this project. So far we've heard from Tovah, a Jewish Russian girl traveling to the US with her family in 1920, Mary, Queen of Scots about to marry a French prince in 1553, Lady of Ch'iao Kuo who lives in Southern China in 531, and a sneaky dog able to escape the most elaborate baby gate and chair barricades. Girls are taking elements of the original story and using their imaginations to create an entry that happens before, during or after the story.