A new year brings a new S.P.A. Book Award Contest! 5th through 7th graders will be reading and discussing four great books this term. Ultimately, they’ll choose a favorite. Happy Reading everybody!!
The nominations for this year’s award are :
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Vive la Paris by Esme Raji Codell
Wishworks, Inc by Stephanie Tolan
Masterpiece written by Elise Broach and illustrated by Kelly Murphy
Showing off some of the new books donated by the SPA Parents’ Organization after their recent Scholastic Book Fair.
Our display of flags from countries around the world is from the Newark Museum’s Educational Loan Collection, a wonderful local resource that enriches SPA all year long.
How well do you know the flags of the world? Here’s a way to find out. Click below to play Flag Tag, one of the fun games from the U.N.’s Cyber Schoolbus:
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/flagtag/frm_ft_intro.asp?score=0&screen_height=768
Here is a fun way to test how well you know how to shelve books using the Dewey Decimal system. Click on the link below to play Order in the Libary from the University of Texas.
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valmstrum/s2s/utopia/library4/src/library4.html
In the upper school his fall we are reading the young readers’ edition of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time
- by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
In the lower school we reading Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & Susan L. Roth
To read more about these books go to: http://www.threecupsoftea.com/
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