After lunch each day, we do a read aloud. This is different from our ELA read aloud. It's a little more informal. Students come in, sit down, and we enjoy a little bit of a story together before they head off to their afternoon classes.
Yesterday, we finished Schooled by Gordon Kormon, and the students decided they wanted to read The Fourteenth Goldfish next. This book came out just a few months ago, and we got this copy from our Donor's Choose Project. Thank you again to everyone who helped make that possible!
The Fourteenth Goldfish is another book choice in Global Read Aloud this year. While we'll be sticking with One for the Murphy's for Global Read Aloud work, we're lucky that we get to read another book that's so highly recommended!
Here's a synopsis of the book from GoodReads:
Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer.
Science can change the world . . . but can it go too far?
Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He’s bossy. He’s cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie’s grandfather, a scientist who’s always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this pimply boy really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth?
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