MARCH BIOGRAPHIES


March 2 - Sam Houston - One of the leaders of the fight for Texas independence.
March 3 - Alexander Graham Bell - Inventor of the telephone
March 6 - Michelangelo - Renaissance artist, perhaps most famous for his painting
of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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March 14 - Albert Einstein - Theoretical physicist who developed the theory of
relativity
March 16 - James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.
March 18 - Bonnie Blair - Olympic gold medalist in speed skating
March 19 - Wyatt Earp - Western lawman famous for his role in the gunfight at
the OK Corral
March 24 - Harry Houdini - Magician and escape artist, famous for his ability to
escape from locked restraints.
March 31 - Cesar Chavez - Labor leader of migrant farm workers.

Dear Parents,

The Lower School administration uses Online Community to communicate with our families. Dr. Bianco and Mrs. Weinman's letters and Lower Division reminders are posted on a Lower Division blog. This is the school administration's main form of communication, so EVERYONE should subscribe. In order to have access, you will need to subscribe to the Lower Division blog.

Directions:
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Celebrate National Library Week - April 11-17 -This year's theme, Communities Thrive @ your library, reminds patrons that the library is the place where people of all backgrounds grow together.

Students in Grade 2 are now studying Asia so they read Explore Asia by Bobbie Kalman & Rebecca Sjonger. They saw pictures of Maldives (the smallest county in Asia), stupas in Myanmar, which are special Buddhist buildings, China's Yangtze River( one of the longest rivers in the world), the Taj Mahal (the tomb of Mumatz Mahal built in the mid 1600s by Emperor Shah Jahan), the Great Wall of China (1,500 miles long with some walls over 2,00 years old), Mount Fuji (one of the most famous volcanoes on Earth located in Japan), and Tokyo where over 12 million people live.
They also saw a display of library books about Asia and several series were introduced. They included "Look What Cam From..", "Children of the World", "Count Your Way",
and "A Ticket to". They have lots of great book choices to learn about this huge continent.


Students in Grade 1 told the story of a wordless book using their own words. The book's title was Rainstorm by Barbara Lehman and they were very creative and used their imaginations to retell an adventurous story by seeing this wordless picture book.


Students in Grades 3-6 will be voting for their favorite Sunshine State Book from this year's list in April. Voting will take place in the media center from April 12-14. All students who have read 3 or more books are eligible to participate in this state reading contest.

In Alpha the children enjoyed Who Made This Cake? by Chihiro Nakagawa. The author and illustrator used their imaginations to show how a cake was made using earth moving machinery for a little boy's birthday.

CALDECOTT MEDAL BOOKS were the theme for K classes this week. Children were shown the chart of the gold medal winners and walked to the bookshelf in the media center where all those gold medal and silver medal honor books are shelved. We then read this year's winner The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney and enjoyed the illustrations as well as the story. Size does not matter and no matter how small one is they are important and can be helful to others. Others books read during the class were Red Sings from Treetops-a year in colors by Joyce Sidman and All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon.

Jr. K students laughed as they enjoyed Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama Mad at Mama. They also saw pictures of real llamas so they could relate more to the story as well as two other books entitled Llama Llama Red Pajama, and Llama Llama Misses Mama by the same author.

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY!!!!