Thanks so much to the over 60 students involved in presenting the 4th and 5th grade Final Books to Eat Competition yesterday. When I say competition, I mean it very loosely… when asked “who won?” my responses included “you did” “we all did” and “when eating cake, everyone’s a winner”. Some of the certificates I gave out yesterday (every entry gets one) were ‘best brother-sister’ ‘most colorful frosting’ ‘best theme display’ and ‘most original idea’…
Have a look at the amazing entries below, I’m sure you’ll agree, they are inspired, creative and clever. Thank you so much teachers, parents and students for all your support of this annual fun event. See you next year!
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A bit of a reality check for me today with only 7 entries from 2nd and 3rd grade It’s a busy time of year… however those entries were interesting, clever and heart felt, and made by families who care. Thank you so much to Elin, Sophia, Elaine, Jacob, Milo, Jessie, Sean, Jasmine, Saskia and your families for your time and effort. We’re all looking forward to the grand finale next week with unprecedented numbers entered by 4th and 5th graders. Get ready for a feast for the senses!
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Books to Eat 2014 will be postponed until after Spring Break so that we can promote this event further.
Our original plan was to start our Books To Eat next week, on April 3rd but as we have very busy with our visiting poets, we felt that there was NOT enough time to properly advertise this event between now and then. So these are the FINAL dates for Books to Eat 2014…I promise. (Check out this amazing Kenn Nesbitt tribute below)
Entry forms will be available in the library from Monday March 10th and you will need:
-your name
-your class
-the name of your book
We began this event in 2013, to celebrate two of our favourite things; books and food! This year, there will be just a couple of changes with each group bringing in their creations on Mondays instead of Fridays; this is a direct result of feedback from entrants last year who would have liked to organise their offerings on a weekend rather than a school night.
Our first group will be PreK, K and 1st grade students, teachers and parents on Monday April 14th.
Our second group will be 2nd and 3rd grade students, teachers and parents on Monday April 21st.
Our third and final group will be 4th and 5th grade students, teachers and parents on Monday April 28th.
Check out our entrants from last year in this great slideshow made by Mrs. Hossack (her son Blake made one of our favourite creations by the way)
Start thinking about book titles and how you can combine them with anything edible… We’ll have certificates for People’s Choice, Students’ Favorite, Most Amazing, Incredibly Edible and much much more. But the biggest prize of all will be eating ALL that CAKE!!!
Do you like pizza?
Do you like books?
Do you like meeting famous, wonderful, clever authors?
YES? Then return any overdue books as soon as possible and if YOUR class has ALL of their overdue items returned FIRST YOUR WHOLE CLASS will get to have a FREE pizza lunch with our visiting author Kenn Nesbitt during his visit; 24th-28th of February.
In my 7 years teaching 5th grade at SAS, one of my favorite units was the health and nutrition unit. Even now, I still can’t go past a blog or a book that I think would be complementary to the students’ learning.
So, here you go 5th grade teachers and team, have a look at some of these great websites.
First of all, here is one of the coolest ongoing blogs I’ve seen from a young person, such a simple idea, but you can see from Martha Payne’s latest blog visitor, Jamie Oliver… that she is doing something right. Oh, did I mention Martha is only TEN YEARS OLD? I’ve bought her story on kindle in our library.
NeverSeconds is a blog showing and reviewing school dinners (lunches) around the world that Martha started up to raise a bit of money for her favorite charity, Mary’s Meals. Martha went on to raise almost $200,000 US dollars… that’s well over a million RMB!
#never seconds
Next up, these sites contrast food around the world in the form of a weekly grocery purchase… Where does YOUR family fit in? How different is what YOUR family purchase compared to the families represented from your passport country/country you live in now?
Just yesterday, here is a study of what 30 families eat in one week, which shows the enormous gap between diets in different countries.
Now here is a photo essay from Peter Menzel, and we have his books in our library too.
American Photo Journalist Peter Menzel
Here’s more of Menzel’s work in Time magazine
OK, and here’s something a little extra for all you people living in Shanghai… Check out these before and after shots of Pudong that I found on another great photography site, while I was looking for great nutrition ideas for you. If you click on the images, they fade in and out for before and after effects.
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