Ending the year with a SPLASH!!

Our principal was such a great sport as students tried to dunk him today. A few were able to dunk him, ending the year with a big SPLASH!!

SUMMER READING

School will be out before you know it. Above is a summer reading calendar with great ideas on how to keep reading this summer while having fun too. Click on the calendar to see a larger copy. Also check out the "Summer Reading Links for ideas on activities and info on how you can get free stuff just for reading this summer.

In the News!!

Daily Herald came to Orchard on Tuesday to do a story about our crane project. Check out the story by going to the "Daily Herald Story" link under online resources.

As I posted earlier, we mailed a box with 2,501 cranes on Tuesday, but cranes are still flying in. Students Rebuild has sent us a mailing label so we will mail a second box at the end of this week. We have folded an additional

1,079

cranes that will be sent in our second box for a grand total of 3,580 cranes = $7,160.

WOW!

WE MORE THAN DOUBLED GOAL!!!

We collected 2,501 cranes.

The Bezos Family Foundation will donate $5,002 for those cranes.

I have mailed the cranes to Students Rebuild (even though I told you we would collect through April) because I wanted our cranes to be in the first 100,000 received so they will be included in the art installation. Thank you for all of your help !!

*We will give additional cranes collected to Osh Kosh B Gosh who is donating children's clothing to Japan cranes.

Paper Cranes for Japan

We are making origami cranes to help with the "students rebuild" effort for Japan. To find out more info on this effort go to the "students rebuild" link under online resources. We will be collecting paper cranes in the library throughout the month of April. Our goal is to collect 1,000 paper cranes?

Storyline Online

A student told me about another online story site called storylineonline where celebrities read children's books. I've added a link to their site under online resources. Check it out!

Dewey Decimal Games

Next week will be library challenge week. Each class will be playing a game to test their knowledge of the Dewey Decimal system or the order books are put away in the library. I will be keeping score and reward the classes that get the highest scores. If you would like to practice for the game next week, go to the "Dewey Matching or Order" links under the online games list.