We're Ready for 3rd Grade!

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Last week, all of my second graders finished How To Be Cool in the Third Grade  by Betsy Duffey and we revealed the book cover. I also shared the few photos in the book. As we emerge as readers it is very important to make pictures in our mind of the characters in the stories we read our own..."pretty soon the books you read will have no pictures," I tell my second graders. The best part of finishing the book was not the cover reveal but rather the discussions that this book enabled. We all learned together that it's not what you wear or your name that makes you cool. Robbie learned being smart, nice and funny were so much more important and that's really what people thought of him - no one even noticed his new jeans! It's the person you are that makes you special and we have some very special second graders that are third grade ready.