Pete the Cat Saves Christmas

Hope you have a 

FUN & HAPPY Thanksgiving

Click this Thanksgiving Fun link to see great information & activities on the National Geographic Kids website.

The Wall, by Eve Bunting, is one of my favorite picture books about remembering veterans.

 To watch a video about this book, click here... THE WALL

This video is through Pioneer Library so it will ask for our username (pioneer) and password (online)

Some of the Veterans in my family...

My great-grandfather, grandfather and father.

President for a Day

We are starting a new reading activity this year, " Battle of the Books" with 5-6 grade. Students that are interested, and their team members, read books from a list of 20 books. In March we have a battle to test their knowledge of the books they read, then the winning team from Orchard will go on to the district competition at the end of March.

The books that are chosen for the BOB book list are a mixture of genres. Many are classic books that have been around for awhile. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a good book to read.

Here is the book list for this years BOB...

Author                                               Title                                 

Banks, Lynne Reid                         The Indian in the Cupboard

Burnett, Frances Hodgson             The Secret Garden

Burnford, Sheila                         The Incredible Journey

Clements, Andrew                         No Talking

Denzel, Justin                         Boy of the Painted Cave

DiCamillo, Kate                         The Tale of Despereaux

Farley, Walter                         The Black Stallion

Goble, Paul                                     The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Haddix, Margaret                         Running Out of Time

Juster, Norton                         Phantom Tollbooth

Karr, Kathleen                         The Great Turkey Walk

Lewis, C.S.                                     The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds             Shiloh

Park, Linda Sue                         The Kite Fighters

Konigsburg, E.L.                         From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Peck, Robert Newton             Soup

Sachar, Louis                                     Sideways Stories From Wayside School

Shahan, Sherry                         Frozen Stiff

Taylor, Theodore                         The Trouble with Tuck

Urban, Linda                                     Crooked Kind of Perfect