Maine Student Book Award Ballot
Students in grades 4 and 5 may vote for the Maine Student Book Award today. Students who have read 3 or more books from the MSBA list are eligible to vote. Click here to go to the MSBA ballot.
World Read Aloud Day 2013
On March 6, 2013 classes at Falmouth Elementary School celebrated World Read Aloud Day. WRAD was created by LitWorld as a way of bringing attention to illiteracy rates across the world and to celebrate the power of reading aloud. Students and teachers at FES took part in Skype sessions with classes from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland,…
ALA Book Awards!!!
Last week, Mrs. Potter traveled to Seattle to meet with the 2014 Sibert Medal committee. While in Seattle, she had the opportunity to be in the audience during the announcement of the ALA Youth Media Awards. A number of classes at FES streamed the awards announcements live. Students at FES participated in a Mock Caldecott…
And the Winner Is…
The winner of the FES Mock Caldecott Award is… Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett/ illustrated by Jon Klassen Honor Books Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham/ illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger One Cool Friend by Toni Buzeeo/ illustrated by David Small
Caldecott Fun!
75 Years of the Caldecott Medal This badge was created by Caldecott Medal winner, Brian Selznick, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the award. Selznick incorporates characters from a number of Caldecott winning books. There will be a trivia question on the morning announcements each day from Dec. 17-21 related to this badge. More…
FES Mock Caldecott Book Trailers
Many of the 2013 FES Mock Caldecott titles have book trailers this year. And Then It’s Spring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gQFVg9nmy0 Bear Has a Story to Tell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIM3ChWBIkk Extra Yarn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QHNzgIhbIo Green http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQeY8bodYs Hello! Hello! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiME91TRjcs Z is for Moose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP52OtZxPdg Mrs. Potter could not find a book trailer for One Cool Friend, but there is a…
FES Mock Caldecott
75th Anniversary The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually for the best illustrations in a picture books. Past winners include Where the Wild Things Are, Make Way for Ducklings, and Jumanji. 2013 is a special one for the Caldecott Medal. It’s the 75th anniversary of the award, and FES is celebrating in style The Mock Caldecott…
Skype Author Events
November has been a busy month for Skype author events at FES. Mrs. Merrifield’s 4th grade class had the opportunity to Skype with the wonderful Anastasia Suen from her home in Texas. Anastasia has written 154 books including six titles from the Jake Maddox series. If you’re not familiar with the Jake Maddox series, you…
Wonder Blog Tour
Falmouth Elementary School Library is honored to take part in the Wonder Blog Tour organized by Random House and middle school teacher, David Etkin. October is Bullying Prevention Month, and all fourth and fifth grade teachers at FES will read aloud Wonder by R.J. Palacio this month. We purchased multiple copies of the book using…
Back to School!
FES Library News- September 2012 Welcome to our second year in the FES Library. Year two is a huge improvement over last year considering the library was still under construction in November. FES students are reading up a storm. During the first three weeks of school we have checked out approximately 3,000 books! We recently…