Texas Bluebonnet Award 2017 Voting Party

It is a unique privilege in my life to observe our students as they discover their love of reading. Our amazing students read 1,716 Texas Bluebonnet Award nominated books - that's an average of 11 books per student! 

Thank you so much to everyone who helped support our students in this endeavor, from spending your lunch reading a book to student/s, braving the chocolate fountain and/or the party in general, touching base with students, celebrating their successes, and bottom-line, making sure every student who wants to succeed does! For many students, this is one of their first experiences setting and meeting long-term goals, and modeling this process is so helpful to them! The students were so excited and proud to be there Friday. 

Our marvelous 5th grade classes were wonderful role models for the younger grades, and they were truly safe, respectful and responsible. Props also to 3rd & 4th grade teams for making sure every single one of their students qualified for the party- even ones who started after winter break!

I'm so proud to be a Forest North Eagle, and so lucky to have all of you support our students.

5th Grade Learns Financial Literacy

5th grade is starting their unit on Financial Literacy this week. We're going to study different forms of payment, like credit/debit, cash and paying online. We're going to learn the different kinds of taxes we pay (payroll, property, sales & income) and also start learning about net vs. gross income, what it means to have a budget, and how to keep it balanced. We're going to pay this game- can you make it through a month with limited funds?

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American Revolution Via PhotoSpeak

Today we used PhotoSpeak to make characters from the American Revolution come alive! Check out this video on Twitter to see how we did!

5th Grade Orders Decimals

Today I'm excited to show 5th grade why putting numbers with decimals is a super important part of my life- because we use numbers with decimals to keep all of our nonfiction library books in order! We'll be playing Order in the Library to practice our skills. Check it out ... get it... library joke?

7th Annual Unusual Reading Spot Photo Contest

It's here- the Unusual Reading Spot Photo Contest is in our 7th year!  Check out some of our older winners!  Below please read our flyer with more information about entering the contest.  The top 10 winning entries will be enlarged to poster size and framed and hung on the wall for all of next school year!  All entries must be emailed to the library by Friday, May 10th, 2017 at 3:00 pm, because the judges will be choosing the winners that day!

Forest North Library Statistics for November