Murdock Elementary School will provide students with the foundational skills necessary to become productive citizens through the development of literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, effective communication and collaboration, and personal responsibility.
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Two Great Book Lists to Try
http://www.guysread.com/books/ - For book lists and categories that boys will like :) So many good books are suggested here!
http://readkiddoread.com/home - An excellent resource created by James Patterson, acclaimed author of adult and young-adult fiction. The reading list has wonderful ideas for children of all ages. He wrote a piece for CNN.com recently with an important reminder. "Sorry, moms and dads, but it's your job - not the schools' - to find books to get your kids reading and to make sure they read them."
Working together, we CAN inspire children to become life-long readers!
CVL Challenge Question Due 1/27!
To participate in the challenge, write your name and your answer on a piece of paper and drop it in the CVL Challenge box in the media center. Winners will be announced on Friday's MBC. Prizes are your choice of a book, a poster or an extra book checkout :)
1st and 2nd Grade: Use Pebble Go Biographies to find out when and where the famous baseball player, Jackie Robinson, was born.
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades: Use World Book Student to complete this sentence. The Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia is a marshy, subtropical ________.
Fun Author Visit!
Author Eric Litwin had students and teachers listening, singing, and dancing as he shared his stories and songs! What a wonderful inspiration for students as they discover their own author's craft.
CVL Challenge ??? Due 1/19
Sharpen your research skills by answering the CVL Challenge Questions each week. One lucky winner will be drawn from all of the correct answers and announced on MBC every Friday. Be sure to use the database mentioned in the question to find your answer.
For 3rd, 4th and 5th grade: Use World Book Kids to find out what year Martin Luther King's birthday was made a national holiday.
Write your answer and your name on a small piece of paper and drop it in the answer box in the media center by Thursday, 1/19. Good luck researchers!
Eric Litwin Coming to Murdock!
Check out his website and/or the songs we'll be hearing as he inspires our students with his stories, music, and creativity.
Snow in the Media Center
We're wishing for snow as students learn about Snowflake Bentley and his life-long work of photographing snowflakes. They can make their own "flakes" at this fun virtual Make a Flake website. Try it! We're also asking students to cut out real snowflakes, using the directions found here. Bring them to the media center, and we'll use them to create our own winter wonderland.
Principal from Another Planet Visits Murdock
Mrs. Hanauer became an "out of this world" Principal for a day last
Monday to reward Murdock students for exceeding their reading challenge! Students were asked to log their reading minutes for just one week. The challenge? To read for a total of 50,000 minutes! And, they did it! The student body logged 70,169 reading minutes in just one week. Thank you, Mrs. Hanauer, for making reading fun! We loved proving that Murdock has "out of this world" readers!
Helping Others
The Media Center's tradition of decorating a Mitten Tree with gloves, mittens, hats and scarves for the children at Brumby Elementary continues this year. Bring your items to the Media Center through December 17th and hang them on our tree. Then they'll be taken to Brumby and distributed to children who need warm items for the winter.
They'll be warm on the outside and you'll be warm on the inside!
