The Adventures in Mrs. Ripp's Class

My friend, Erin Klein, brought this to my attention today and I just had to share this cool opportunity for all of the kids that love to write.  So this post is right from her website:

Mrs. Hyland and the students had their fashion show

It is no lie that I love to read, in fact, as my students know it is one of my biggest ultimate pleasures.  So it was no surprise to them when I showed them a picture of the reading pile next to my bed waiting for me; it's huge to say the least and it keeps growing.

So with no fanfare, here are the books I will be relaxing with this summer:

• The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
• Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
• The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
• I'm Nothing Special by Geoff Herbach
• I'm With Stupid by Geoff Herbach
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
• The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore
• Radio Road by Jake Henderson
• I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
• The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde (His first children's book - his adult books are some of my favorites!)
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• Savvy by Ingrid Law
• The Encyclopedia of Me by Karen Rivers
• I, Emma Freke by Elizabeth Atkinson
• Den Iranske Gartner by Bjarne Reuter (Adult book)
• I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
• The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
• Marco Effekten by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Adult book)
• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (Adult book)
• Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
• City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
• The entire Missing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
• Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
• Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
• The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
• The Pull of gravity by Gae Polisner
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• The Truth about Truman School Dori Hillerstad Butler
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai
• Plunked by Michael Northrop
• Human.4 by Mike A. Lancaster
• Twerp by Mark Goldblatt
• A billion picture books at least with Theadora

Stopped by the post office today to mail a certain package to Ontario, Canada.  Now we keep our fingers crossed that the teapot and the mug make it there safely, I will post news when I hear something.

I know many of the students are reading lots of books this summer so now they can get rewarded.  Here is a list of various reward programs for the reading they are probably already doing.

• Half Price Books - Feed Your Brain!  You get to earn book bucks which means more books - woohoo!
• Barnes & Noble - Read 8 books, write a reflection and earn a new book - woohoo!
• Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge - log your minutes and earn digital rewards and be part of setting a new world record!
• Pottery Barn Kids - Yes, really, they do a reading challenge as well - read a lot and earn a free book from their store.
• Middleton Public Library - of course!  They always have great coupons for ice cream.

I hope you are reading  - I know I am!

Although Thea, Ida, and Oskar and I have been having an amazingly fun summer so far and I have had the time to read 3 books already; I miss my students!

So here we are on our last day together - I think we look great!

We always end the year sharing some of our favorite memories, in some parts the sound is quite hard to decipher - our apologies...