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👩🏿🔬👩👩🏽🎨Celebrating Women’s History Month
Enjoy this gallery in honor of Women’s History Month. Each picture in this gallery connects to a slide on a famous woman. Each slide has information, a brief video, and links to one or more books being read aloud.
Great Author Studies
We’ve had a terrific year reading books by great children’s authors. Many of them offer book-related activities on their web sites, as well as information about what they are doing now. Visit our featured authors’ web sites by clicking on the images below. (Please note: Laurie Keller’s website is temporarily unavailable but should be up again soon).
Spring 2020 Book Trailers
Fifth Grade students read a great selection of books this year as independent reading choices. They used an online application called Adobe Spark to create book trailers or short videos that introduce their books without giving away the endings.
Enjoy watching their trailers below.
If you like sci-fi thrillers, Blake recommends that you read Gone.
Imagine if the narrator of a book is a dog! Riley thinks you’ll like Dog Diaries.
Veronika recommends All Summer Long, a graphic novel about friendship.
Eddie read Brave, a graphic novel about a boy who is trying to survive middle school.
Wynne recommends New Kid, an award-winning graphic novel about a boy who struggles to adjust to his new school.
Jaya wants you to imagine what life was life for Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile.
If you like sports, Hudson recommends The Crossover, an award-winning book about twin basketball stars.
Brendan thinks that you will like Guts, a true story by Raina Telgemeir.
Do you like pranks? If so, Angela recommends The Terrible Two’s.
Emma thinks you will like She’s the Liar, a story that takes place in a boarding school.
Alcatraz was a maximum-security prison. Could someone really escape? Brent recommends Escape from Alcatraz.
Imagine losing your 2 front teeth right before middle school starts. Tommy thinks you’ll like Smile.
If you like stories about amazing dogs, Brayden recommends No Better Friend, a true story of a brave dog in World War II.
If you like dragons and fantasy books, Katie recommends Dragonslayer, part of the Wings of Fire Legends series.
6th Grade “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories
As the final project for their Information Technology classes, students created original interactive “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories using Google Slides. You can explore their adventure tales with lots of different story choices below.
Jan Brett’s Free Offer(s) for Schools and Libraries–Help Us Please
The school or library that has the most parents, teachers, friends, or supporters who enter the contest will win a free school or library visit from Jan in the 2020 school year. The contest ends Monday, April 20, 2020. 2nd to 10th place schools will receive prizes of 10 Jan Brett books. 11th to 100th place winners will receive a prize of a signed Jan Brett Poster.
Please enter at the link below and enter East Woods School for a chance to win free Jan Brett visit. Please be aware that the rules state that only one email address entry is allowed per person. Duplicate email addresses will be removed. All emails will be verified before the winning entry is announced. If you are under the age of 13, please use your parent’s email address.
https://www.janbrett.com/contest_2020/2020_free_school_or_library_visit.htm
Resolve to Read More
Happy New Year everyone!
This time of year is a great opportunity to set goals, and it’s a perfect time to think about getting our kids to read more. Arranged by age group from babies to teens, here are some great tips from Brightly, a site devoted to “Raising Kids Who Love to Read.”
September is Library Card Sign Up Month
Our East Woods Library has many great books, and your local public library (usually, right in your neighborhood) can offer families access to so much information and cultural opportunities. In addition to books and multimedia materials that can be borrowed, local public libraries offer free programs and access to many tools, both high and low tech. All you need is a library card.
September is Library Card Sign Up Month. Most local libraries just require proof of ID and proof of residence, so find your local library and sign up today!
List of Nassau County Public Libraries
List of Suffolk County Public Libraries
Summer Starts Now–Make Time for Reading!
Welcome to the lazy, hazy days of summer! In between all your fun in the sun, take time to relax with a great book. If you’re looking for some suggestions for books to read this summer, here are some good places to look:
East Woods Library Web Site Check out our Library’s web page to find printable suggested reading lists and great illustrated book reviews written by students in grades K-4.
A Book and a Hug Here you will find all kinds of book suggestions, by age, by reading level, or by category
Capstone Interactive Summer Capstone Publishing is offering free access to their interactive books all summer long.
Fifth Grade Book Trailers
Our Fifth Grade students read a great selection of books this year as independent reading choices. They used an online application called Adobe Spark to create book trailers, or short videos that introduce their books without giving away the endings.
Here are their terrific trailers:
Jenna read the book A Dog’s Purpose, a story about a special dog and all of the friends he makes during his many lives.
Imagine needing to walk miles to survive. Jovana suggests that you read A Long Walk to Water.
If you like dragons and fantasy books, Lilah recommends the Wings of Fire series including The Lost Continent.
Ella recommends Deenie, a book about how a 7th grade girl has to cope with lots of challenges.
If you ever wanted to know what it was like to live with animals in the wild, Siena suggests that you read the biography Who is Jane Goodall?
Frankie recommends The Phantom Tollbooth, a fantasy adventure story, which has been loved for years.
Do you like ghost stories? Chloe suggests that you read All the Lovely Bad Ones.
If you like being in school plays, Charlie thinks you will like Drama.
If you like adventure stories, Landon recommends that you read Hatchet.
Michaela recommends the book Real Friends, a graphic novel about friendship.
Imagine having a brilliant photographic mind but being unable to share your thoughts. Sabrina recommends Out of My Mind.
John recommends that you read the exciting true adventures of a pararescue operator in Never Quit.
Would you like to be a wizard’s apprentice? If so, Ben thinks you will like the Evil Wizard Smallbone.
Imagine being home-schooled and then going to school for the first time in 5th grade! John suggests that you read about August’s story in Wonder.
Neela recommends that you read more about the characters of Wonder in the book Auggie and Me.
Ian read the exciting science fiction book, I am Number Four. It’s the first book in the Lorien Legacies series.