Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Real World Connections with Literacy


Our 4th grade Wise Owl reading group is reading the book, Touch Blue by Newbury Honor author, Cynthia Lord. This fiction story is based upon a true story of a small island in Maine that takes in foster students to keep their schoolhouse open. In this book, the main character, Tess and her family take a chance on Aaron, a 13 year old trumpet player who has been bounced from home to home.   This warm- hearted story offers a thoughtful and humorous view about what it is like to belong and how lucky we feel when we do.

    

The students prepared questions for Robin Hough, a Beverly foster mom, pictured here with one of her foster children, a year old boy.

~Nancy Garvey


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