While recently in Singapore, I discovered this beautiful picture book in a museum's bookstore. It is the story of two children somewhere in Indonesia, spending a fun day at the beach. Their mother's sarong comes in handy in many different ways. The story is accompanied by lovely illustrations. Even though the book is much longer than any of the stories I have shared so far with our PK1 students, I decided to give it a try as it seemed perfect for encouraging students to make predictions about the story and personal connections to the story, some of the skills we are working on with our youngest library users.
Our youngest students showed me that I was right in picking this story for them. They made wonderful predictions about what the children in the story might use the sarong for, for example, to sit on, to make a tent and hide in, to wrap and carry things in, to use as a cape, to use as a headgear, to use as a kite, or to cover yourself with. They also listened attentively and shared how much they enjoyed the story afterwards with me.
We also continue working on how to choose a book. Each week, I ask one of our students to model how to choose a book and many students are happy to demonstrate. While we have a strong representation of nonfiction readers among this year's PK1 students, I notice that students are spending more and more time exploring all of our recommendations, giving other books a try as well.
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Our PK1 students also continue to enjoy a Mandarin story each week.
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