A huge thank you to the 45 participants in Books to Eat Round One. Many 4th and 5th graders collaborated with friends and family to create such a variety of entries. Congratulations to all the participants for taking the time and making the effort to do something new.
When:
4th and 5th grade April 10th
2nd and 3rd grade April 17th
PreK, K and 1st Grade April 24th
Where: Drop your creations, and book, off at the Elementary Library on Monday morning.
Why: Because it is fun…and yummy!
Who: We’d love you to work with your family; you can also work with your friends.
… and if you are scratching your head wondering about the What:
*Think of a book, and make something edible to go with the book.
*You could bake a cake, and frost/ice it to look like:
-the cover of the book
-a character from the book
-a scene from the book
*You could make a cake shaped like a character/scene in the book
*You don’t have to make cakes, or cupcakes, or even sweet things…some of our entries have been
-ice cubes (for the book Frozen)
-vegetables (for the book Little Pea, for the book Green)
-cereal (for the book The Infinity Ring, for the book Cornflakes)
-popcorn (for the book Popcorn)
-meat (for the book I smell like Ham)
-bread (for the book The Princess and the Pea)
-pasta (for the book The Pasta Factory)
-jello (for the books Alice the Fairy, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish)
-turkish delight (for the book The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)
-liquid (for the book Chemical Chaos)
-milk (for the book Fortunately the Milk)
-pancake (for the book If you give a pig a pancake)
*Please make something on the Sunday at your house, or with a friend.
*Bring your creation AND the book (we can help you find it in the library if needed, but give us some notice) in to the ES Library on the Monday morning
*We will all look at it, photograph it, reward it and eat it on the Monday afternoon.
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.
With over 150 Books to Eat entries in 2015, we are gearing up for an exciting month of May with four opportunities to contribute to our festivities. For the first time we are having a day just for teachers to start off the fun. As you can see below, entries can be as simple or complex, as savory or sweet as you like…they just have to link up to a book.
Dates are:
Teachers-Monday May 9th
Grade Prek,K,1- Monday May 16th
Grade 2,3-TUESDAY May 24th (s0rry it’s not a Monday, I’m in Australia ’til Monday night sorry)
Grade 4,5 – Monday May 30th
Books to Eat Competition Information –See here for more great photos
*Think of a book, and make something edible to go with the book.
*You could bake a cake, and frost/ice it to look like:
-the cover of the book
-a character from the book
-a scene from the book
*You could make a cake shaped like a character/scene in the book
*You don’t have to make cakes, or cupcakes, or even sweet things…some of our entries have been
-ice cubes (for the book Frozen)
-vegetables (for the book Little Pea, for the book Green)
-cereal (for the book The Infinity Ring, for the book Cornflakes)
-popcorn (for the book Popcorn)
-meat (for the book I smell like Ham)
-bread (for the book The Princess and the Pea)
-pasta (for the book The Pasta Factory)
-jello (for the books Alice the Fairy, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish)
-turkish delight (for the book The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)
-liquid (for the book Chemical Chaos)
-milk (for the book Fortunately the Milk)
-pancake (for the book If you give a pig a pancake)
*Please make something on the Sunday at your house, or with a friend.
*Bring it in on the Monday/or Tuesday (2nd and 3rd grade) morning
*We will all look at it, photograph it, reward it and eat it on the Monday (or Tuesday) afternoon.
Looking forward to reading as many of these picture books as we can at SAS this week holding our breath to see who wins the ALA Caldecott Medal
1. Cardboard Challenge is on Friday October 9th (one month away, but only FIFTEEN school days away)
2. Students should be collecting and keeping EVERYTHING cardboard NOW!
Check out how much fun we had last year…
3. Students should bring in as much SMALL cardboard as possible next week, a 4 day week (SMALL is ANYTHING that will fit into an A4 photocopy box, e.g. toothpaste/granola/tissue/cereal/shoe boxes, toilet rolls, saran wrap/foil rolls)
This year, we will have three teams competing to collect the most cardboard.
PreK, 4th grade
K, 1st grade, 5th grade
2nd grade, 3rd grade
4. Between September 21st and 25th students will drop off their SMALL cardboard items in the labeled boxes outside the ES Library by 9 am
(At 9 am, cardboard will be counted, and a Daily Tally will be kept of the number of individual cardboard items submitted per team, a winning team will be announced at the end of the week, each member of that team will win a small prize)
4.a Students should collect as much big AND small cardboard over October Break
5. Between October 5th and 8th students will drop off ANY cardboard items in the labeled boxes outside the ES Library
(At 9 am, cardboard will be counted, and a Daily Tally will be kept of the number of individual cardboard items submitted per team, a winning team will be announced at the end of the week, each member of that team will win a small prize)
6. Global Cardboard Challenge is on Friday October 9th, stay tuned for more details about what the day will look like.
Well, that’s the end of another wildly successful Books To Eat, well done Team 2015… we more than tripled our entries from last year with around 148 all up! Hooray for us.
Thank you to the students for making it happen, and the parents and teachers, some of whom baked multiple times, we appreciate your skills and commitment.
We had a whopping FIFTY entries this week, for our 2nd and 3rd grade Books To Eat Competition. (Oh, and I use that term loosely, every entrant gets a certificate with some award named such as ‘Purplest Frosting Award’, ‘Spottiest Entry Award’ ‘I just want to gobble you up Award’…) It is great fun making up the awards for the kids.
Thank you to all the teachers, parents and especially the students who make this competition so much fun. Please take a minute (or 7) to view the entries from the first two Mondays of Books to Eat 2015 and I look forward to some delicious treats on Monday April 27th from our PreK, K and 1st grade students.
It’s your turnPreK, K and 1st grade Monday April 27th –
*Think of a book, and make something edible to go with the book.
*You could bake a cake, and frost/ice it to look like:
-the cover of the book
-a character from the book
-a scene from the book
*You could make a cake shaped like a character/scene in the book
*You don’t have to make cakes, or cupcakes, or even sweet things…some of our entries have been
-ice cubes (for the book Frozen)
-vegetables (for the book Little Pea, for the book Green)
-cereal (for the book The Infinity Ring, for the book Cornflakes)
-popcorn (for the book Popcorn)
-meat (for the book I smell like Ham)
-bread (for the book The Princess and the Pea)
-pasta (for the book The Pasta Factory)
-jello (for the books Alice the Fairy, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish)
-turkish delight (for the book The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)
-liquid (for the book Chemical Chaos)
-milk (for the book Fortunately the Milk)
-pancake (for the book If you give a pig a pancake)
*Please make something on the Sunday at your house, or with a friend.
*Bring it in on the Monday morning
*We will all look at it, photograph it, reward it and eat it on the Monday afternoon.
Check out these amazing photos taken by Mrs. Hossack of our BIGGEST Books to Eat turnout EVER!
Well done 4th and 5th grade and special overseas contributors, Lizzy and Rory.
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