OES Book Club

The Ossian Elementary School Student-Parent Book Club we held February 24. The “OES Book Club” is for all students in grades 3-5 and their parents. This month’s book was The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. Over 60 students and parents attended the meeting. The book clubs are sponsored by various community donations and OES uses these donations to purchase 60 copies of the book of the month so that all children have an opportunity to participate. Many borrow books from OES and some purchase their own. This is the second year for the OES Book Club.
The agenda for each book club includes:

-Author study of the featured author
-Group assignments (the whole group is divided into about 6 small groups)
-Small group book discussion (we provide guiding questions for the book and do a specific activity with the book. This time each group did a character trait analysis of their two favorite characters from the book)
-Gather as a whole group to discuss the “aha” moments from each small group meeting
-Intro the next book club selection

The next book club will meet April 20, at 6:30 p.m. They will be reading The Secret School by AVI.