We had a terrific time celebrating Roald Dahl last Tuesday on what would have been Roald’s 100th birthday. Thanks again to the classes who dressed up, looked for Golden Tickets and checked out the wonderful stories of this brilliant contributor to literature.
Visiting Author
Our author David Greenberg is here. Please see the attached schedule for the times he may be presenting to your child this week.
Also attached find the book order form that was sent home last week; it is not too late to order books anytime this coming week. If you want a book, fill out the form, make sure to neatly write who you want the book autographed to, and send in the exact money in an envelope to your child’s classroom teacher, or directly to the ES Library.
ORDER FORM CHINA 2016Greenberg Order Form
If you are interested in the Civil Rights presentation offered to grades 4th-12th please join the High School division in the PAC on Tuesday at 9.25 am. David’s father was the lawyer for Martin Luther King and this presentation is excellent. If you would like to join in on any of his poetry presentations, you are also always welcome, check the schedule for a time that suits you and talk to your child’s classroom teacher.
大卫-格林伯格将与9月19日-23日来访美校。查看具体日程表请转至Schoology或者我的博客。如果家长有兴趣出席他为四至十二年级所做的关于民权的演讲，请于9月20日早9：25移步演艺中心。格林伯格的父亲曾是马丁-路德-金的律师，这场演讲必定精彩绝伦。如果你对他其他的演讲感兴趣，请在查看具体日程表后告知您孩子的班主任您的出席时间。
We need Volunteers
Parents, please contact me via e mail kimbra.power@saschina.org if you think you can spare a few hours before October Break to volunteer in the Library. We always need volunteers and you will have the opportunity to discover many great resources our library offers, not just for your child, but also for you.
Cardboard Challenge
We are participating in the Global Cardboard Challenge on Thursday October 13th and we need your help. This week, please hold on to as many small cardboard items as you can and send them in with your child starting September 26th. We run a friendly competition between the 22 elementary classes to see who can bring in the most small cardboard items; think toilet rolls and tubes, granola and cereal boxes, tissue and cosmetic boxes etc. There will also be the opportunity to send in larger items after the October Break and talk to your homeroom teacher if you think you’d like to volunteer your time on the 13th; it is a LOT of fun. Search cardboard challenge into the search area above to see some of our past events.
纸箱大挑战”将于10月14日登陆，更多详情可在Schoology或者我 的博客上查询。由于我们的仓储空间有限，请帮助我们尽可能地收藏些纸箱。9月26日起我们将以班级为单位回收这些纸箱。最受欢迎的纸箱是类似纸巾盒、牙膏盒、麦片盒这样的小包装，或者是卷筒纸卷芯。回收箱就在图书馆正门靠近小学小学走廊的一边，每天回收的数字最多的班级会获得小奖品。点击我的博客链接输入cardboard challenge搜索更多信息。
Roald Dahl would have been 100 years old this year, we are celebrating his birthday on Tuesday September 13th with a giant birthday cake, activities in the library and lots of Roald Dahl Read-Alouds. We’ll also have the excitement of 15 golden tickets being hidden in our picture books for any students to find, the students will then get to choose a free book from us to keep. What’s your favorite Roald Dahl book? If you’d like more information, check out this great website http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/roald-dahl-100
今年是罗德-道尔诞辰100周年。我们将在他9月13日生日当天以“大声读”和分蛋糕的方式来庆祝。还有一个“寻找黄金券”的重头好戏。15张将分散藏在15本图画书里，找到黄金券的优胜者可以从我们的神秘奖品柜里任选一本作为奖品。你最爱的罗德-道尔的书是哪本？了解更多详情，请点击链接
Our author David Greenberg is visiting September 19th-23rd. Please see the schedule on Schoology or my blog http://sites.saschina.org/kpower
If you are interested in the Civil Rights presentation offered to grades 4th-12th please join the High School division in the PAC on Tuesday at 9.25 am. David’s father was the lawyer for Martin Luther King and this presentation is excellent. If you would like to join in on any of his poetry presentations, you are also always welcome, check the schedule for a time that suits you and talk to your child’s classroom teacher.
大卫-格林伯格将与9月19日-23日来访美校。查看具体日程表请转至Schoology或者我的博客。如果家长有兴趣出席他为四至十二年级所做的关于民权的演讲，请于9月20日早9：25移步演艺中心。格林伯格的父亲曾是马丁-路德-金的律师，这场演讲必定精彩绝伦。如果你对他其他的演讲感兴趣，请在查看具体日程表后告知您孩子的班主任您的出席时间。
Our Cardboard Challenge is coming up on October 14th, there are more details on my blog and Schoology. Please keep cardboard at your home for as long as possible as we don’t have a lot of space to store it, we will be collecting it in homeroom groups starting Monday September 26th so PLEASE start sending items in then; we are particularly after small boxes such as toothpaste/granola/tissue/cereal and LOVE cylinders like toilet paper rolls etc. There will be a daily prize for the class that brings in the most items and we will have boxes outside the Elementary Library for them to be dropped off. Again, check out my blog http://sites.saschina.org/kpower and type cardboard challenge into the search area at the top of the page.
纸箱大挑战”将于10月14日登陆，更多详情可在Schoology或者我 的博客上查询。由于我们的仓储空间有限，请帮助我们尽可能地收藏些纸箱。9月26日起我们将以班级为单位回收这些纸箱。最受欢迎的纸箱是类似纸巾盒、牙膏盒、麦片盒这样的小包装，或者是卷筒纸卷芯。回收箱就在图书馆正门靠近小学小学走廊的一边，每天回收的数字最多的班级会获得小奖品。点击我的博客链接输入cardboard challenge搜索更多信息。
Roald Dahl would have been 100 years old this year, we are celebrating his birthday on Tuesday September 13th with a giant birthday cake, activities in the library and lots of Roald Dahl Read-Alouds We’ll also have the excitement of 15 golden tickets being hidden in our picture books for any students to find, the students will then get to choose a free book from us to keep.
What’s your favorite Roald Dahl book?
If you’d like more information, check out this great website that has a huge amount of fantastic resources for families, teachers and children to celebrate the life of Roald Dahl. The party pack is also included below as a PDF.
I’ve been here for 11 years and this will be the third time Author Poet extraordinaire David Greenberg will visit us at Pudong campus. I am most excited about this visit as I have come to know David over the years and absolutely love the presentation he does related to Civil Rights. He will be presenting this from 4th-12th grade with a full high school assembly on Tuesday morning in the Performing Arts Centre, and for all of 8th grade on Monday afternoon in the LLH. David’s Civil Rights presentation is aligned with his novel A Tugging String which provides a unique perspective of growing up during the Civil Rights Era as the son of Martin Luther King’s Lawyer.
Parents are welcome to attend these sessions and we will get you a more detailed schedule as David’s visit gets closer. David will be on Pudong Campus from Monday September 19th-Friday September 23rd before moving to Puxi campus for the following week.
David will be presenting poetry to the Prek-3rd grade during the week and there will be the opportunity to purchase some of David’s books using the order form below that will be sent home with students before David’s visit.
Here are some of the books David will be sharing poetry from, discussing and promoting with the students.
Here is the order form for the books David can sign, and send to us in China after his visit.
I’ve been encouraging/recommending/telling/pleading/endorsing/raving/pleading/cajoling/begging students since September…READ THE VISITING AUTHOR BOOKS!
It was easy with Todd Parr; we could get through a few each lesson, they could finish them themselves in minutes, even in first grade, and turnover was fast. With Kwame Alexander, also pretty smooth, as apart from Acoustic Rooster, we really only had The Crossover; which was a two bus ride read for many of our students; Booked hadn’t come out, and we didn’t yet have Surf’s Up.
However with Laurie Halse Anderson and Margaret Peterson Haddix visit, the kids had a lot more choice, and a lot more reading to do. We have most of the authors books appropriate for 3-5 grade on; wait for it…
*60 kindles
*60 ipods
*11 ipads
…as well as multiple paperback copies…and they’ve known for months…no excuse! However now that their visit is days away, we’ve had a MAD RUSH on just about everything; kids acting like they didn’t know, they weren’t told…”Authors? What Authors?” It’s true that with such a fast turn around between Todd and Kwame and Margaret and Laurie, kids have difficulty processing the urgency of the situation (that’s why I gave them months of notice” OK-I’ll stop now…Rant Over.
Seriously, didn’t we just have two amazing authors at SAS?
Well from April 18-22nd, we have TWO more! Margaret Peterson Haddix and Laurie Halse Anderson are coming to Shanghai. Come to our Assembly in the PAC on Monday 18th to welcome these two ladies to SAS Pudong. We have many books on sale in the library by these authors; first in first served.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm near Washington Court House, Ohio. She graduated from Miami University (of Ohio) with degrees in English/journalism, English/creative writing and history. Before her first book was published, she worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and a community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois.
She has since written more than 30 books for kids and teens, including Running Out of Time; Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey; Leaving Fishers; Turnabout; Takeoffs and Landings; The Girl with 500 Middle Names; Because of Anya; Escape from Memory; Say What?; The House on the Gulf; Double Identity; Dexter the Tough; Uprising; Claim to Fame; The Always War; Game Changer; Full Ride; the Shadow Children series; the Missing series and The Palace Chronicles. She also wrote Into the Gauntlet, the tenth book in the 39 Clues series. Her books have been honored with New York Timesbestseller status, the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award; American Library Association Best Book and Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers notations; and numerous state reader’s choice awards. They have also been translated into more than twenty different languages.
Haddix and her husband, Doug, now live in Columbus, Ohio, and they are the parents of two college-aged kids.
Margaret will be in the Elementary School all day on Thursday April 21st as well as for an hour or two every other day that week.
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is the New York Times-bestselling author who writes for kids of all ages. Known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity, her work has earned numerous national and state awards, as well as international recognition. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists. Laurie was honored with the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award given by YALSA division of the American Library Association for her “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature…”. Mother of four and wife of one, Laurie lives in Northern New York, where she likes to watch the snow fall as she writes.
American history has been a life-long passion for Laurie. If she were to become a teacher, it is what she’d teach. Like Speak, her first historical fiction novel, Fever 1793, published in 2000, is used in schools all over the country. After receiving multiple national and state awards, Fever 1793 was adapted into a stage play in May of 2004 and performed at the Gifford Family Theater in Syracuse, New York.
In 2008 Chains was released, the first in a trilogy set in the Revolutionary War time period. Laurie was blessed and honored when the book was named a National Book Award finalist, her second. Chains also received the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the ALA Best Book for Young Adults award, together with multiple media and bookseller recognitions. Forge, the sequel to Chains, was published in the fall of 2010 and we are eagerly awaiting Ashes, coming October 2016.
Laurie will be in the Elementary School all day on Wednesday April 22nd.
I can’t believe it was only a few days ago that Kwame Alexander was here in Shanghai, dazzling us with his Poetic Skills. Students loved seeing Kwame on stage, where he performed his poetry and told his stories, and many of them have been inspired to write by meeting the Newbery Winner up close and personal.
Thanks for the Memories and Congratulations on Booked, I loved it, and can’t wait to share it with the kids once it comes out TODAY, April 5th.
Surrendering to holiday down-time, sees me relaxing, and taking time to reflect on the meaningful memories of our time with Todd Parr. Todd was a real treasure to have as a visiting author and artist; he ticked all the right boxes being loved by the students, teachers and parents. Come back soon Todd Parrty!
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