Rosie Sprout's Time to Shine

I had the best time springing into spring with a bunch of my classes last week. We read Rosie Sprout's Time to Shine, watched a cool video of a bean sprouting in time lapse, and then did some science! We put a bean seed and a wet paper towel into a plastic bag.

Now that some time has passed, many of the beans are sprouting. I caught a photo of a student in Mr. Hashbarger's class checking out everyone's experiments.

Bridget Heos Visits Forest North

Forest North students in PreK-2, FCC & PPCD had a blast learning about how to write a book from Bridget Heos today.  Did you know that Bridget Heos has published about 100 books?  Mustache Baby was her first fiction book, where she made up a story.  She got the idea from her son and his friend laughing at a picture of a baby with a mustache.  Bridget Heos told us about how she writes a book, and how many editors will sometimes say no to a book before it gets published.  She picked kids from the audience to play the editors that turned her down or to be the last special one who said YES!  She also taught us about special goats who get a little bit of DNA in them to make their wool stronger.  Some kids bought a discounted book from our partnership with Barnes & Noble to get signed by Bridget Heos and meet our author.  Five lucky K-2 students also won a mustache drawing contest to eat breakfast with the author as well!  What a great day!  Thanks for all the fun, Bridget Heos!

Bridget Heos Visiting Forest North 2/24

Bridget Heos is coming to visit our K-2, FCC, PPCD and PreK students on 2/24.  We're so excited!  Check out our presentation for more information about her visit, and feel free to print out our order form below if you'd like to buy a book and get it signed!  Prices are on the form.

Hour of Code on Library iPads!

Mrs. Young & I were so excited to work this week with Mr. Brewton, Forest North Instructional Technology Specialist, to celebrate Hour of Code!  I worked with our Kindergarten & 1st grade classes, and Mrs. Young helped out with PreKindergarten.  Hour of Code is a global celebration happening this week to teach kids about computer programming and how fun it can be!  I was astounded at how quickly our kids picked it up- these digital natives will be great engineers one day!  Thank you so much for including us in your celebration & teaching, Mr. Brewton!  We love collaborating with you!

Earth Day Book Swap!

PreK students are excited for their two free books!

Happy Earth Day, readers!  We celebrated this year by having an reuse, recycle marathon session of fun.  In the Library, we hosted our 5th annual Earth Day Recycled Art Contest & Book Swap, had our 2nd year of the Earth Day Karaoke room, and debuted some Earth-themed PE games as well.

We set a new record with over 800 books given to kids to take home.  Each student got to take home 2 books as a gift from the library which we accumulated through donations and Mrs. Fournier's work on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Selection Committee.  Students were also encouraged to bring books from home as well to swap out for additional texts!  Students got to refresh their home libraries, get some new books with a little higher reading level, and have fun to celebrate our planet Earth.

Kindergarten Book Club

We had so much fun getting together and celebrating Snowballs by Lois Elhert at our final Book Club presentation on February 2nd!  During school, we had a special reading of the book by Kindergarten readers to an audience of Kindergarten and PreK.  We also had special fruit snacks during the reading!

On the night of Book Club, students came in with their families to get their books to take home forever, eat dinner, make and take crafts and snacks, and all got a special favor to take home made by our wonderful PTA parent volunteers!

To recreate our crafts, feel free to check out our Pinterest board we used to develop our book club.  We had a lot of fun, and hope you did too, Eagles!