August 2, 2010

Three Books Down, Three Books to Go:

440 pages to read divided by 24 days =18 pages per day.

Hey, Chase, Grant, Doug, Jaden, Bennett, Liam, and Anthony,

I hope you're getting dirty wherever you are.

I'm heading for the White Mountains today to camp 'til Thursday with Amy, Liam, and Sadie.  Looks like we'll be tenting in the middle of a bunch of thunderstorms. Oh, that's great. I'll have to be sure to use all of my metal tent poles.  They're watching for tornadoes in Kansas and Minnesota. Does that sound familiar? Check out Accuweather.com to follow the tornado watches.

So, we have three books to go and three and a half weeks to read them. If you start The Homework Machine today, and you read about 18 pages per day, you will be done by next Thursday.

According to our schedule, we would then read Room One in just one week, and end our Summer Book Club with Escape from Alcatraz on August 26th. But, let's talk next  Thursday. It may make sense to drop either Alcatraz or Room One so that we're not frantic the last two weeks.

Please comment: do you think you'll want to read all the books or drop one (and which one)?

Happy reading!

- Mr. Bolger





That's it for now.  Can't wait to hear from you.
-Mr. Bolger

July 11, 2010

Welcome, Guys, 

to Your Summer Book Club.

Welcome to Summer,

And dirty feet,

And grilled meat,

And a hot car seat.

Welcome to staying up late,

And  forgetting the date,

Climb the trees,

Swim and freeze,

Time to think,

And boy, you stink.

Welcome to Summer.

Hey, Chase, Grant, Doug, James, Jaden, and Bennett,

I hope you're all having a blast so far.  Most of you are nearly done with Time Twister 3-- Journal of a Cardboard Genius, by Frank Asch. (For people who are just checking in, in this series, Alex builds  some cool stuff out of  cardboard -- like a time machine. He also crafts some cardboard goggles that allow him to see  all the invisible time travelers who are visiting us from the future,  walking around among us , and we just can't see them.)

I am posting questions every day. Please try to write one comment per day. 
Your choice: Either answer my question, or pose your own question to the rest of us, or make a comment about someone else's comment.

Next Book: Sable by Karen Hesse.  Finish it by this Thursday.

Upcoming Book: Night of the Twisters by Amy Ruckman. We'll be reading it from July 15th to July 30th. Why not check around in libraries and at Barnes and Noble or Amazon now.


That's it for now.  Can't wait to hear from you.
-Mr. Bolger