Our Spring Scholastic Book Fair is almost here!
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Proceeds from the book fair help fund author visits, books for students and the library, our Bluebonnet Reading Program, clubs, materials for teachers, and professional development.
Congratulations to Surya A., Oveya C., Sabrina L., and Izzy N.! They had our top scores in our Campus Battle of the Bluebonnets, and will represent our school in the district competition on March 10th!
Read-alouds this week:
We're a little early in reading about Holi with our kindergarten classes, since we'll still be in book fair mode on March 9th. Festival of Colors is a beautiful, fun book to help us learn about this Indian holiday that many of our student celebrate!
First graders are visiting the Depth and Complexity icon of rules, both written and unspoken, as we read Mary Wears What She Wants, about the real Mary Edwards Walker.
The second half of second grade is getting caught up with a new take on "The Little Red Hen" story, with The Little Red Fort.
Third graders are revisiting the Book Nook too, this week! They are gathering some schema for their upcoming science unit on space with A Place for Pluto. We're discussing the Depth and Complexity icons of Rules and Language of the Discipline (astronomy).
Lessons this week:
Fourth grade is learning about the 5Ws reading comprehension strategy to remember what they've just read. By asking themselves who, what, where, when, why, and how questions when they're done reading, they will be able to self-diagnose what information they've learned or missed from the text.
Fifth graders are reviewing nonfiction text features by finding them in books about weather and water cycles and sharing them with their table groups.
Important dates:
March 4th-9th: Spring Scholastic Book Fair
March 9th through 13th: All overdue books and fees due for Spring Break checkout
March 10th: District Battle of the Bluebonnets
March 11th: Library closed for Kindergarten Registration
March 31st: Last day for parents to record student reading minutes for Six Flags
May 8th: All books due back to the library
See you at the Spring Scholastic Book Fair next week! In the meantime, enjoy these pictures of the mountain laurel in bloom, right outside our library windows.
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