March Madness Champion

We completed March Madness in the MC and it was so much fun!  I have had many requests to check out all of the Elite 8 books, but especially the champion book!

The Final Four books were Ivan, the Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla, The Numberly's, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, and The Adventures of Beekle the Unimaginary Friend.

We then voted for the final two books to make it to the championship:
The Adventures of Beekle the Unimaginary Friend versus Ivan, the Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla.

And the Champion is.......

IVAN, THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA!

There is also a fiction chapter book based on Ivan titled The One and Only Ivan.   I have recommended it to several students and we do have a copy in our MC.  March Madness was a fun way to extend Read Across America week all month and get the whole school involved.

Mrs. McElroy

Read Across America Week

We had an exciting week at BES celebrating Read Across America Week.  We started out by having over 60 different readers come to do read alouds for National Read Aloud Day on Monday, March 2!!

Which, also happens to be Dr. Seuss' birthday.  To honor Dr. Seuss we had a different dress up theme for every day of the week based on a different Dr. Seuss Book:

Monday- Green Eggs and Ham (wear green)
Tuesday- Fox in Socks (silly socks)
Wednesday- Wacky Wednesday (dress wacky)
Thursday- Cat in the Hat (hat day)
Friday- Dress like your favorite Dr. Seuss Character

 

We also had a guest reader on the announcements every morning to read a portion of our theme book!

 Thank you to all our Business Partners and the PDC for helping with this!

We are also continuing with our March Madness Bracket to celebrate reading all month long!!

Mrs. McElroy

March Madness

To celebrate Read Across America Week all MONTH in the MC we are having our very own March Madness!  We have a Book Bracket and began with the Elite Eight:

The Princess and the Pig by: Jonathan Emmett
The Numberlys by: William Joyce and Christina Ellis
The Circus Ship by: Chris van Dusen
The Adventures of Beekle the Unimaginary Friend by: Dan Santat
A Pig Named Perrier by: Elizabeth Spurr
The Incredible Book Eating Boy byL Oliver Jeffers
Ivan The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by: Katherine Applegate
My Teacher is a Monster by: Peter Brown

The classes voted on our Final Four and there will be more on that next time...as well as all the fun we are having celebrating Read Across America Week!

Mrs. McElroy