Monday, February 26, marks the end of Pennekamp's Literacy Celebration 2018. A big round of applause for Jiyeon and Julie, co-chairs of the event, and thanks to the Pennekamp PTA for funding and other support. The Read-a-thon logs are due by March 1 (that's this Thursday). Congratulations to all the participants in the Super Literacy Quiz Bowl! Everyone was awesome, showing not only extensive knowledge of the selected books but also teamwork, grace under pressure, and sportsmanship. The winning teams' classes received their ice cream on the Friday before break.
This week looks to be a quieter, more typical week. The theme for books on display and for the readalouds is community--how important it is and how to create it. Grades 4 and 5 are hearing Maybe Something Beautiful, by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell, for which there's a nice little book trailer below. This week's focus is a lead-in to next week's visits with Manhattan Beach Rotary Club members who will be reading to grades K, 1, 2, and the deaf and hard-of-hearing class. Also visiting next week are children's librarians from the Manhattan Beach Public Library (the heart of the community, in my opinion), who will be distributing special student library cards to all our 3rd-graders. Community service is an important part of Pennekamp. We will be recognizing our successful food drive for the L.A. Regional Food Bank (remember the 1,010 pounds of food we collected a couple of months ago?) with free popsicles on Friday, March 9. At this time we should also have a ballpark figure for our current service project: Pennies for Patients, a fundraiser for leukemia research.
This week looks to be a quieter, more typical week. The theme for books on display and for the readalouds is community--how important it is and how to create it. Grades 4 and 5 are hearing Maybe Something Beautiful, by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell, for which there's a nice little book trailer below. This week's focus is a lead-in to next week's visits with Manhattan Beach Rotary Club members who will be reading to grades K, 1, 2, and the deaf and hard-of-hearing class. Also visiting next week are children's librarians from the Manhattan Beach Public Library (the heart of the community, in my opinion), who will be distributing special student library cards to all our 3rd-graders. Community service is an important part of Pennekamp. We will be recognizing our successful food drive for the L.A. Regional Food Bank (remember the 1,010 pounds of food we collected a couple of months ago?) with free popsicles on Friday, March 9. At this time we should also have a ballpark figure for our current service project: Pennies for Patients, a fundraiser for leukemia research.
Monday, February 26, the book club for 5th grade meets in the library. We are discussing Under the Egg, by Laura Marx Fitzgerald. The plot involves a (fictional) painting that was hidden by the Nazis in the (real) Altaussee salt mine, pictured below. In addition to being a captivating mystery, Under the Egg delivers a bit of Renaissance art history and information about World War II, especially the efforts of the "Monuments Men" to recover stolen artworks. The book is a little edgy in parts, though, so I'd recommend it for grade 5 and up.
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