Did you know that Valentine’s Day is the fourth largest holiday for candy sales after Halloween, Easter and Christmas! After Christmas, Valentine’s Day, which happens annually on February 14, is the most celebrated day of the year in the U.S. Here is some interesting trivia about the international day of love. About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards… Read More February Challenge
This week in library, second grade students explored the world of programming with an iPad app called Cargo-Bot! Cargo-Bot is a puzzler designed to teach kids about programming. The concept is simple –tell a robot arm how to move colored boxes around on a platform into different patterns.The implementation may be quite challenging, and just like… Read More Cargo-Bot
Every night in the United States an estimated 600,000 people live on the streets. This October, SoulPancake and Kid President want 2 million people to prove that even the smallest acts of love, like donating a pair of socks, can make a big difference in the lives of our neighbors who are homeless. Socktober was… Read More Socktober
Dear Students,Teachers and Parents, Scrabble Day is observed on April 13, 2016. It celebrates the popular board game on the birthday of it’s inventor, Alfred Mosher Butts. Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 15×15 grid.… Read More Scrabble Day
The “Tower of Books” Library Challenge began January 25, 2016 and ended Friday, March 18, 2016. Second grade classes were challenged to collectively read 100 books from predetermined categories, first grade, 80 books and kindergarten, 60 books. Many classes met the “Tower of Books” Challenge with the required number of categories and books while other exceeded the challenge! Congratulations!… Read More Tower of Books Data
Are you a smart shopper? Near my local town in New Jersey, there are three supermarkets, Stop and Shop, A & P and Fairway Markets. This week they each have special deals on certain products. If you bought all the items on my grocery list in one store, which store would be the cheapest? Would you… Read More Would You Rather?
This time of year, especially Valentine’s Day, we try to express our love to others and show concern for others. Each and every one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun and actually makes us feel good too. Kindness is to act friendly,… Read More February Challenge
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