Magic Tree House

The Magic Tree House book series has been quite the staple in the classroom so far this year.  I started reading them when we began school in July and the students have asked that we keep reading them any free minute we get during the day! We have read each book in the series so far up to #7, which we are currently reading.  
It tickles me to death to have a class begging to skip recess to read the latest adventures of Jack and Annie in the Magic Tree House books.  Over the last few weeks we have been reading #7 Sunset of the Sabertooth and I am hoping to start the research guide about the Sabertooths and the Ice Age next.  This will lead us perfectly into our nonfiction unit of study. 
I have always been a huge fan of this series because of all the education it provides.  Each book has a fact tracker companion that explores the science or social studies content included in the book.  I have also introduced the website to the class.  It is through scholastic and is free!  The students can set up their own tree house and go on adventures/missions like Jack and Annie.  There are so many things to do on the website.  They can take “passport quizzes” where they answer questions about each of the books and earn stickers for their passports.  There are also missions/games where they are to answer science/social studies questions from what they learned in the books and collect clues.  The website is: scholastic.com/magictreehouse. Please let me know if you have any questions about this fantastic series! 

 Love,

Mrs. Kimmel