FAMOUS FEBRUARY PEOPLE

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Feb. 1 - Langston Huges - U.S. author and poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Feb. 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell - First U.S. female to receive a medical degree.
Feb. 4 - Rosa Parks - Civil rights leader
Feb. 4 - Charles Lindbergh - First aviator to fly solo non-stop over the Atlantic from New York to Paris in 1927.
Feb. 6 - Bob Marley - Influential reggae musician.
Feb. 6 - Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth) - Baseball Hall of Famer
Feb. 11 - Thomas A. Edison - Prolific inventor of the electric light bulb, phonograph, and
much more.
Feb. 12 - Abraham Lincoln - 16th U.S. President, who led the Union during the Civil War and
issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Feb. 15 - Galileo Galilei - Physicist and astronomer
Feb. 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- American poet; author of "The Song of Hiawatha"
and "Paul Revere's Ride"

Students in grade 1 practiced their speaking and presentation skills this week by reading and acting out the book Pink! by Lynne Rickards. The story is based on the life of a penguin when he suddenly turns the color pink. When he is teased in school he decides to leave the South Pole to live with the flamingos in Africa. The theme of the story is about dealing with being differenent i and being accepted by others. After hearing the book read and seeing the illustrations on the board using Elmo, students picked out their parts for the reader's theater from the Mr. Potato Head container. Students were encouraged to "act" out their script and they did an excellent job, too!

Guess Who Is Knocking At the Door?
That was the theme for the library lessons with the students in third grade. They read small biography books and wrote 3 clues for their person. Students had to guess the person based on these clues. They all learned about people they did not know in a fun way.

Students in Alpha are learning all about dinosaurs so in their library lesson they heard the book entitled World of Dinosaurs. They learned about Diplodocus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Maiasaura, Velociraptor, and Triceratops.

In Jr.K the students were fascinated with all the valuable information they learned about animals from a new book entitled Never Smile at a Monkey: and 17 Other Important things toRemember by Steve Jenkins. It was filled with facts about dangerous animals that are not commonly thought to be harmful to humans. Just ask some of the students to tell you one thing they learned and I think you will be impressed.

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New 2010 Caldecott Medal books (* winner )

*The Lion and the Mouse - Jerry Pinkney
Red Sing frm Treetops : a year in colors - Joyce Sidman
All the World - Liz Garton Scanlon

New 2010 John Newbery Medal books (*winner)

* When you Reach Me - Rebecca Stead
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate - Jacqueline Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Grace Lin
Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice - Phillip M. Hoose