Summer Reading Program

Families,   

We are participating in an exciting reading program this summer.  Your student should have come home with a reading challenge sign-in paper.  Your student has been assigned a username and password to www.scholastic.com/summer.  They can create an account where they can log in their summer reading minutes and unlock virtual prizes and games.  Please help us with our goal of 218 students committing to read for the summer.  Look for their Sign-in paper in their backpacks.  Thank you for supporting strong readers.  

Remember to come visit the book fair to get a jump start on good book titles for the summer.  When you sign your student up for our summer reading pledge they will receive an entry into our raffle ticket drawing to win a $10 gift certificate to use at the book fair for next Friday.  

Spring Book Fair

Our Spring Book Fair will be Friday, May 26th-Friday, June 2nd.  It will be open before and after school.  We are collecting summer reading pledges for your chance to win a gift certificate to spend at the book fair.  Please come check it out.  We will be open during our Doughnuts for Dudes event.

Recent Happenings In The Meadow

With state testing completed we can finally get back to our normal schedule in the Media Center.

The Trillium have spent their time learning about the elements of folktales and fairytales.  We read a book with a twist from the original story, The Three Little Pigs.  This story gave the perspective from the wolf and how he claimed he had been framed.  The Trillium also got a chance do a little bit of gardening during library time.  We can't wait to see their wildflowers sprout.


The Huckleberries have been planning their pollinator gardens and we have been busy reading and dreaming about how to best take care of our garden spaces.  We read a great book about becoming Extraordinary Explorers and how to treat our nature spaces with respect.  We are hoping to put our pollinator gardens on the map.  Please click on the following link to see what we are working towards.

http://pollinator.org/mpgcmap/

The Clarkia have continued to work hard towards meeting their typing goals before the end of the year.  The third graders are working to be at 10 WPM with 90% accuracy and the fourth graders are working to be at 15 WPM with 90% or higher accuracy.  Please help encourage your student to practice with typing.com at home.  We have also been learning about how to "cook up" the best research project and learning what secret ingredients make the best outcomes.  We discussed the 6 steps to successful research.  Make sure you ask your student to show you the steps as this should give them great direction for their independent projects.

The Alders are learning how computer science is impacting our world in force.  I challened them to find a career where computer science does not touch some aspect of the work.  We found out that most of our jobs are all impacted by computer science and how important it will be to know and understand computer coding for the future.  They have been working with code.org and are using drag and drop to create algorithim for programs.

The Cedars will finish up their computer classes this week.  They are working to meet their typing goals for the year and hope to finish up between 30-45 WPM with 90% or higher accuracy.  They have also finished up the year with a fun computer science challenge.  They are working to code by using Phython language on CodeCombat.  The mission it to create code to battle against their classmates.  We will see if the human or ogres win the coding combat!