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March Magic

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Some people call it March Madness, I’m choosing to find the Magic in the Madness. We have so much fun in the library every day, so many kids actually run into the space with excitement, it is wonderful. I know some of our parents really miss it, and we sure miss you too. We are really excited to see many of you this Wednesday and Saturday, please be sure to stop by.

It has indeed been a busy month, we are barely half way through; here are some of the highlights.

Jerry Pallotta Virtual Visit

We’ve had Jerry Pallotta, the author of the very popular Who Would Win series visiting with our students. So far he has seen every grade except 5th, and he will meet with them on the morning of March 29th. Ask your child if they’ve read a Who Would Win book, or one of Jerry’s alphabet books. In a writing career that didn’t start til he was 32, Jerry has published over 100 books; only one of them is fiction. Jerry really engaged the students with his stories of travel in Africa and Antarctica and kept their interest sharing some wonderful footage of his trips. He has been a great resource to inspire our students that ideas come from everywhere, keep your eyes open, and stay curious. He shared that he does much of his research through books glorious books, as well as on the ground travel and experiences.

How many books checked in today competition

We’ve been keeping track of how many books are checked in each day since November, well, we always know, due to our destiny database, but we’ve been SHARING how many, and sorting them in to categories each morning with the students. It has been AMAZING. Seriously. The kids have been SO engaged, and learned so much without even realizing it. So for the month of March, we’ve been getting the students to guess how many books they think will be checked in today. 2nd grade have been really improving and this week we even had our first 1st grader guess the EXACT amount. Woo hoo

And so it begins…again

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ONE of our Favorite times of the year in the library starts tomorrow. 4th and 5th grade are up first!

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Books to Eat Competition Information

*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.

Monday April 13th – 4th and 5th grade 

Monday April 20th – 2nd and 3rd grade

Monday April 27th – PreK, K and 1st grade

 

 

Eat your words…aka Let them eat cake!

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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)

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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) 

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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!!!