Thanksgiving Feast JBE Style

Our classes enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving meal today.  Many parents came to have lunch with their children and enjoyed the delicious meal as well.

Children's Book Week at JBE

Children's Book Week has gotten off to a great start this week.  We began the week with teachers and students decorating the back hallway and classroom doors centered around their favorite books.  The back hallway is centered around the book Where the Wild Things Are.  Here's a sneak peek of what it looks like...

Tuesday's theme was "Get Lost in a Good Book", and students were able to dress in camouflage.

Today's theme was "It's Not Tacky to be a Good Reader".  Students and teachers were dressed in their tacky clothes to show that they are proud to be bookworms.

Students have also been very busy reading and taking AR tests to reach the school's goal of 650 points for the week so that Dr. Johnson and Dr.Sukaratana will be able to dress up like two tacky tourists.  Keep up the good work and keep on reading!!

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

                                  ~Marilyn Jager Adams

Spending time reading is a very important part of the instructional process. We continually remind our students that in order to become better readers they must spend time reading. At school every teacher stops what they are doing at 2:15 everyday to give their students 15 minutes of reading time. In addition, we encourage our students to read at home every evening between 15 and 30 minutes. To further reinforce the importance of reading, we will be celebrating Children's Book Week beginning on November 16, 2009. We will have a series of fun, reading related activities that encourage children to read. Please read the information flier sent home with your child. You can get more information about the upcoming events by calling Mrs. Griffin in the media center.