Camping Read-In

Friday was SUCH a fun day in our class! We finished off our two week unit on camping by having a camping read-in. Each of the students was allowed to bring a flashlight and a special book or two from home. I moved all the desks and set up two tents (one big and one small), as well as a camp fire made from tissue paper. We spent the entire morning sharing our books with our friends. I divided the class in half and they took turns reading inside the big tent. When you were not reading in the big tent it was your turn to do campfire reading and "read under the stars". Everyone LOVED it! We turned off one of the classroom lights to dim the room a bit (but still leave plenty of light for reading). However, every 15 minutes the kids had to get with someone who had a flashlight and we turned off both lights for 5 minutes of "flashlight reading". What a super fun day!

I took a bunch of pictures of everyone during our read-in, but unfortunately I cannot share them on the blog. You'll just have to settle for a picture of our set up and imagine it with 19 giggling faces poking out from inside of the tent: