Rufus Goes to School

Rufus Goes to School is written by Kim T Griswell and illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev is about a pig named Rufus wanting to go to school to learn how to read his favorite book. He thinks material items such as a back pack, lunchbox, and blanket is what he needs to enroll in school when the principle stops him each time and gives him silly things a pig would do in school. There is only one reason the principle accepts to be a good enough reason for Rufus to go to school.

This would be a good book to read on the first day of school since the students themselves just went school supply shopping. You during the reading you could have the students predict what the next school supply would be that he gets. The students will laugh at the silly things the principle thinks Rufus will do. The students will be able to identify different character traits that Rufus has displayed through the book. I fell in love with this book when I first read it, I also used it for a read aloud for my third grade class and they too enjoyed it.