Thanks to Adam Rubin @Rubingo for sharing his artistic process as well as his new book High Five with our lower school! Our kids had a blast!
Many thanks to Komal Singh @AraTheStarEngineer for sharing he new book Ara the Star Engineer with our kids on Friday!
For their FINAL mock award at the lower school, our 4th Grade voted for Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word by Sarah Jane Marsh / illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham as their mock Sibert Award winner! Thank you for 5 years of intense reading and critiquing.
Our Third Graders chose Game Changers: The story of Venus and Serena Williams (by Lesa Cline-Ransome / illustrated by James E. Ransome) as their mock Coretta Scott King Award for illustration winner! Thanks for all your hard work 3rd Grade!
The winner of Second Grade's 2019 Mock Caldecott Award is...Drawn Together by Minh Le / illustrated by Dan Santat! Thank you for all your hard work Second Grade!
First Grade voted for Unlimited Squirrels in I Lost My Tooth by Mo Willems as their 2019 Mock Geisel Medalist! Voting was very close leading to an Honor for Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin
This year our SK students chose Bob, not Bob! by as their favorite book for the Monarch Award @monarchaward
After many months of hard work and critical analysis, the students have chosen the winners of our annual mock @monarchaward, Geisel, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King and Sibert awards!
Thank you to author and storyteller Chitra Soundar @CSoundar who shared stories and helped us compose our own together! All the best to you!
Many thanks to @candacemfleming and #EricRohmann for visiting our school and discussing their new book Strongheart! The kids had a blast!
Our mock Sibert Award winner: Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion by Chris Barton / Illustrated by Victo Ngai
Our mock Coretta Scott King Award winner: The Youngest Marcher: The story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist by Cynthia Levinson / Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton
Our mock Monarch Award winner: Princess Pink and the land of Fake-believe: Moldylocks and the Three Beards by Noah Z. Jones.
The lower school students announced the winners of our annual mock Monarch, Geisel, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King and Seibert Awards last Friday. Their hard work resulted in some great winners!
The lower school is exploring peace in honor of MLK this month. We asked students to take pictures of what peace looks like in the library.
