Book-It Theater performs at Bennett

On Wednesday, November 21, Book-It Theater will perform Thank you, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco. This wonderful book deals with learning struggles and bullying. If you'd like to have the story read to you click on the link below:


http://www.storylineonline.net/

You may already know of this fabulous web resource. The Screen Actors Guild has famous actors (and Al Gore) reading storybooks aloud often with the text along the bottom. Who wouldn't want James Earl Jones to read them a story?

To access Thank you, Mr. Falker, simply click on "More Stories" twice, then on the book title. The actress, Jane Kaczmarek, will then read you the story.

Interactive Flag that inspired the National Anthem

This summer I was fortunate enough to visit Washington DC. While there, my family and I visited several museums including the museum of American History. One of the most interesting and moving exhibits was of the American Flag that inspired "The Star Spangled Banner". Here is a link to an interactive website of the flag.

This image was found here: http://www.galleryoftherepublic.com/usflags/starspangled.htm



Today our school held its annual Veteran's Day assembly. Perhaps your child would like to take a closer look at the flag Mr. Panther discussed.

The Electoral Process Explained

Students are surprised to learn that a presidnet can be elected even if he has not one the popular vote. The electoral process can be hard to explain, but this video does a stellar job explaining how it works.

Video Explaining the US Election Process


Hope you voted.

Book Fair and Guest Wendy Wahman

The Book Fair is coming!
October 23 -26 Click here for specific times. 
 
We will be holding a Family Read Night on Wednesday, Oct 24 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. With special guest, local author and illustrator, Wendy Wahman. Click on the videos below to see how lucky we are.

 

 

Beverly Cleary Award

The above books are nominated for this year's Beverly Cleary Award. They are geared to early chapter book readers but span a wide range of reading levels. Students need to read or listen to two titles to be eligible to vote in late March.

Past winners and nominees can be found at the official website.

Sasquatch Reading Award 2013

This week all the 4th and 5th graders were introduced to this years nominees for the Sasquatch Reading Award. Students must read two of these titles in order to vote, but many students challenge themselves to read all of them.

If you'd like to see the presentation that was shared with the classes, go ahead and click HERE. I'd love to take credit for such a fabulous creation, but credit must go to Nannette Demmler, Phantom Lake's librarian.

Here's a list of the nominees:

Title	Author
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda	Angleberger
The PS Brothers	Boelts
Crunch	Connor
Cosmic	Cottrell Boyce
Out of My Mind	Draper
Turtle in Paradise	Holm
The Popularity Papers (#1)	Ignatow
Love, Aubrey	LaFleur
The Sixty-Eight Rooms	Malone
A Long Walk to Water	Park
Masters of Disaster	Paulsen
The Books of Elsewhere v. 1: The Shadows	West

Welcome to the 2012-2013 School Year

Hello! I always love the start of school. For me the year truly begins in September. I have new energy, new ideas, new shoes, and, this year, I have a new library system. After 11 years with the last library automation system, the district has switched to a new system named Destiny.

For those of you who are my age this clip helped me remember the name.

The name Destiny is important because it is part of the URL. You can access our library catalog from any computer using this address: http://destiny.bsd405.org. There is also a link on right side of this blog, on the PTSA's schoolbennett website and on the Bennett's school webpage. Yes, we want it to be easy for you to access.

*** If you lost and paid for a book prior to this school year, I will be able to process refunds through October 15th.  So now is the time to round up any library items and return them.

*** If you had a parent library account in the old system, you will need to have me create you a new one. This process takes about 30 seconds, but you'll need to see me before you check any books out.

*** If you would like a parent account, let me know. I'll need your phone number and email address- that's it!