How Many Books Can We Read?
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I love the idea of keeping a long list of the books we read as a class for the entire year. The problem is, I don't have any room in my teaching area to post another thing. So here's my solution. We use a clipboard and paper.
I tape regular-sized copy paper end to end, then fold it at the taped lines, back and forth, into a stack. After that, I slip it under the top of one of my decorated clipboards. We add to it all year long by simply taping more paper to the end of the stack. If it gets too thick, we take off the first stack and begin another. I tie a ribbon to a pen and then to the clipboard so recording titles can be instantaneous. After demonstrating a few times, the job of recording titles can be turned over to the children.
To expand the learning, we could turn the number of books read into an addition problem by adding the totals on each page. Or we could practice skip-counting book totals each month and each semester and finally the grand total at the end of the year. We might even count the final number of sheets and make a division problem to figure out how many sheets each child can take home as a reminder of our year of reading together.
At the end of the year we'll tape all the stacks together and have an unfolding party down the hallway. I wonder how far it will stretch.
My friend Lori Sabo does something very similar. Here is the sheet she puts on her clipboard.
