Dear Students and Families, It has been wonderful to work with you at Plummer-Motz School, Lunt School and Falmouth Elementary School over the past nine years. We’ve had some great times together including author visits, Dot Day, World Read Aloud Day, 1:1 iPads, creating book trailers, the 40 Book Challenge, Read Across America Day,…
As summer vacation approaches, many students and parents are in search of good books to read. Visit the Summer Reading page of the FES Library site to access suggested summer reading lists by grade level. https://mrspotter.edublogs.org/recommended-reading-lists/ I also encourage students to sign up for Falmouth Memorial Library’s Summer Reading Program. Visit the FML site…
Click here to go to the Maine Student Book Award ballot.
Click here to go to the Chickadee Award ballot.
The winner of the 2017 FES Mock Caldecott Award is… Are We There Yet? by Dan Santat 2017 FES Mock Caldecott Honor Books The Secret Subway by Shana Corey illustrated by Red Nose Studio The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers
This week we are kicking off our 5th Mock Caldecott program at FES! All 46 classrooms will read six picture books published in 2016 and will discuss and analyze the illustrations. We use the following art terms in library class to discuss illustrations: color, line, space, shape, texture and media. After reading all six books,…
FES students and teachers checked out 43,786 books in 2015/2016! Click here to read the FES Library Annual Report and learn about library programs, lessons, and special guests who visited the library last year. [embeddoc url=”https://mrspotter.edublogs.org/files/2016/07/Library-Annual-Report-2016–163rxcu.pdf” viewer=”google”] Here are the top 25 titles that were checked out of the FES Library over the past year. Roller…
Classes at FES are going to take part in Scholastic’s Summer Reading Challenge. Our goal is to read 1 million minutes as a school between May and September. This challenge is meant to be a fun way to encourage students to keep reading during the summer. Each student at FES will receive a Username to login…
Last week Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, took part in a live interview in New York. Here is the video of that interview. http://www.wimpykid.com/wkvirtuallylive/ The cover and title of the next Wimpy Kid book is revealed at the end of the interview.