Book Fair Info

The Scholastic Book Fair will be held in the Westerly Creek library from Monday, October 25th through Friday, November 5. The book fair is an important fund raiser for Westerly Creek Elementary. Our 2 Book Fairs in the 2009-10 school year raised over $9000 in books and supplies. Most teachers from Westerly Creek and Stapleton 3 received funds from those book fair proceeds to purchase materials for use in their classrooms.

There is a great selection of affordable books for kids from ECE through 5th grade (and beyond).
Our book fair this year falls during some big events including Parent/Teacher Conferences, Student Halloween Parade, Election Day and Literacy Day so we really need a lot of volunteers.

TO VOLUNTEER - Please follow the link below to sign up for 1 or more shifts:
http://www.slyreply.com/Event/EventDetails.aspx?eid=B0fhsWQNQ5A%3d

Book Fair Hours:
Monday, October 25 9 – 6:00 Book Fair Sales, Teacher Conferences
Tuesday, October 26: 8:30 – 6 Book Fair Sales, Teacher Conferences
Wednesday, October 27: 8:30 – 9:30, 11:30 – 1, 2:15-4:15 Book Fair Sales & Halloween Parade
Monday, November 1: 8:30 – 9:30, 11:30 – 1, 3:30 – 5:30 Book Fair Sales
Tuesday, November 2: 8 - 6 Book Fair Sales, Election Day
Wednesday, November 3: 8:30 - 9:30, 11:30 - 1:00, 3:30 - 5:30 Book Fair Sales
Thursday, November 4: 8:30 – 9:30, 11:30 - 1:00, 3:30 - 5:30 Book Fair Sales
Friday, November 5: 8:30 - 9:30, 11:00 - 2:00 Book Fair Sales, Thanksgiving Lunch & Literacy Day

This week

Friday we left the school boundaries and took our classroom outside. We painted what we saw using watercolors and wrote complementary poems that we will later revise. (i took pictures ) We write poetry every Friday. Ask your child about their experience. On Monday, we analyzed an author's stance in a feature article. We also found non fiction texts around the school to show that non fiction texts are everywhere. Tuesday we will focus on "I wonder..." questions to help comprehend non fiction texts. Wednesday we will do another pre book club activity.

Thank you for your support.

Our warm up message question was how many states begin and end with the same letter.

Today's happenings

First we made predictions and then followed up with a discussion from the following lecture.

http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html

The rest of the day was centered around understanding text features in non-fiction texts.