College students taking a children's literature course visit Hatchery Hill Elementary School to share books and activities with second graders.
Students from Centenary College professor Kerry Barnett's children's literature course recently visited Hatchery Hill Elementary School, in the Hackettstown School District, to share books and activities with 67 second graders.
Centenary College students work with second graders on activities related to books they have just read. (Courtesy photo) The college students, who have been studying specific works as well as critical and theoretical perspectives on literature for children, selected picture books they thought would interest the 7- and 8-year-olds and prepared interactive plans for the 40-minute session.
Groups of two or three college students with eight or nine second graders enjoyed such stories as "There is a Bird on Your Head!" by Mo Willems, "Oh! The Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss, "Corduroy" by Don Freeman and "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon.
The activities following the stories included completing sentences on a bird-emblazoned headband, drawing pictures of future careers and making paper bag puppets of fantastic creatures.