Ready for class!

Well I'm ready for class tonight. We get to finally do our International Fair. My group is doing ours on Bolivia and ASU's Sister Library Project. I will blog about that later! Sunday night my literature circle met to talk about our last book, called "Light". Noel was the only one that had her book, so we met in a chat room and she read the book to us. I actually received my book in the mail today, the day it's all due! She talked about how beautiful the illustrations were in this book and she was right. The book is about the first few days when God made the earth. The story is told from the illustrator's daughter, because he wanted it be more of a child's perspective and easier to understand for children. The illustrations are made from acrylic paint on watercolor paper. It looks like the paint was applied very heavily.
I also was able to get my individual books read and reviewed and posted to the wiki space. I think that was a neat way of reviewing books. Now we can just look under our chapter and read the review that someone else has put on that book. I am really starting to enjoy this class. I love all of the fictional children's book reading that we are having to do! Now tonight I have to present one of the book that I chose for my individual readings. My choices are Noah's Ark, by Jerry Pinkney(great book), The case of the Fidgety Fox, by Cynthia Rylant (silly book), and Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr (emotional book). I chose to present the Paper crane book. I actually cried in this book. It was very touching. More to come later....