Book Project Jump Start

One of the best parts of reading a book is the connection between reader and author. The connection might be a shared experience, memory or emotion. The story might have changed your world view, or made you consider a perspective you had never thought of. Maybe you learned something new, or are now curious about something you had never thought of before.
Through words, we can touch something deeper within ourselves.

Here's a chance to earn a point for your classroom via a book project. Write a letter to the author of one of the nominated books. Let them know why their book made a difference. Here are the details:

• Write your letter via Google Docs and share it with me (with edit privileges so I can fix typos.)
• Express to the author how his or her book made a difference to you. Go deeper than "I really liked it!" Why? What was the connection? What did you learn? What new perspective do you now have?
• Use proper grammar and punctuation. 
• I will send your letters to the authors. Who knows, maybe you will get a reply!

Happy Holiday Break!

I hope you are enjoying a wonderful break with family and friends.
As a holiday gift to you, I present a bonus trivia game. Each person who  answers all questions correctly by 3:30 p.m. on 1/3/18 will earn two points for their class! Good luck!

Holiday Bonus

The answer is...

Workshop (or shop). Mariam is our luck winner this week. A point to Mr. Massey's class. Congratulations!

Week three trivia

Happy snow! Isn't the first storm of the year magical?
I'll be drawing one lucky correct entry on Friday.

What class did Mimi want to take?

Answer here

Our week two winner is...

Sydney M. who knew that Astrid dyed her hair Thunder Blue. Congratulations! The point goes to Mr. Massey's class.

Trivia Week Two

Trivia question for the week of December 4th. I'll draw the winner at 3:30 on Friday. Good luck!

We have our first winner!

In a random drawing of all correct entries, our first winner is Mason! He has earned a point for Mrs. Mullens' class with the answer of Penguini's Linguini.
Look for next week's question on Monday morning.

Trivia!

This Week's Trivia Question

The Kick off!

On November 16th, we packed the reading room with readers to kick of this year's MCBA program.
Student's were very excited to record their reading in the "Red Binder"!
Here's to a fun season of reading----

Countdown to the MCBA season...

We will kick of this year's MCBA program on Thursday, November 16 at 8:10 in the library.
Woot Woot---get your bookmarks ready!

I know many of you have been busy reading and I can't wait to hear about which books you are loving.

This was one I enjoyed!

Summer reading

Happy summer!
It is hard to believe that July is half over...we'll be back in school before you know it!
It's been great to see many of you at our Super Summer Reading events this summer, and I hope you have made time to read  every day.

I have been enjoying this year's list of books immensely. This week I read Nuts to You by Lynn Rae Perkins. This book will take you inside the world of squirrels and how they experience their world. A fun book with some humor and cute illustrations, and an interesting point of view. I highly recommend it.

A new list, new books to explore

I love that the new MCBA list comes out in May, just in time for plenty of summer reading. While we don't officially start our program until November, now is the time to get a head start on reading your five.
I am very excited about this year's list; it's the best I've seen in several years and there are some wonderful books here. There is diversity, issues to make us think and reflect, different genres and formats and books to make us both laugh and cry. 💛
Happy Summer Reading!

Varsity Readers

Congratulation to this year's Varsity Readers. Each of these students read 20 or more of the MCBA nominees.  They were honored at an all school meeting and received a trophy to recognize their achievement. It is quiet a feat!

Great job:

Campbell

Thaddeus

Ryan

Nate

Aaron

Will

Alina

Toler

Sally

Alex

and

Mr. Feitlinger!

The state winner is...

And the Bement winner is...

Poached!

Honor books are:

Thank you to everyone who read and voted!

A Three-Peat Victory

Wowza! It could not have been more exciting! This year's Battle of the Books Championship pitted five very well prepared teams of readers against each other for 25 minutes of nail-biting action.
And our winner was....The Red Team. Will, Aaron, Ryan, and Nate won the medal for the third year in a row. What fun! Congratulation to each and every participant. I am so proud of you all!

Battle of the Books

It was an exciting season of Battle of the Books. The class level tournaments were all close, we added a wild card, and our teachers joined in for the school tournament.

Battle of the Books begins

We have nine student teams signed up for the Battle of the Books and one teacher team! The action begins on Tuesday at recess, and progresses to the school championship on February 28.
Good luck to all readers and may the best team win!