Happy 4th of July!

I hope everyone's summers have been going great so far and that you are doing something special for Independence Day.  To celebrate, I wanted to share a patriotic book/song suggestion: This Land is Your Land by Woodie Guthrie (words and music), Kathy Jakobsen (illustrations) and Pete Seeger (musical tribute).   This has always been one of my favorite patriotic songs, and I love the folk-art inspired paintings in this book version.

If you get this book, you'll see it comes with a CD that you can read/sign along with or you can watch this video to get the experience right from your computer:

Tell Us What You Are Reading in July!

This is the space where we want to hear about all of the exciting reading you are doing during the month of July!

Tell us the title and author of any books you read, and give them a rating between 1 and 5 stars and answers these questions:

• What was your favorite part of the book and why?



• What did you like least about the book?

Leave your answers as a comment on this post to share all the great books you have reading during the month of July.

Here are some important tips:

• Be sure to leave your first name and last initial, your school and your grade so we know it was you.



• Before you post your comment, be sure to have an adult read it over or proofread it yourself to be sure that your ideas make sense, and your spelling and punctuation is good.



• Still not sure what to do? Check out the first comment on this post to see what a good comment looks like!