Winter Break Reading Fun Calendar

Have nothing to do?  Tired of playing with your new toys?  Already won the game you really wanted?

Here is just the thing for you!  Try one or more of the activities on the Winter Break Reading FUN Calendar.  None of the activities take long, but will cure you of your winter break boredom!

Don't forget to continue to read, read, read.  Like the calendar says, if you read just 30 minutes each day of break, you will read a total of 510 minutes.  That is one dragon scale!

Happy Holidays!

 



Flat Chuck meet Flat Mr. Hudson

WTHR-13 weatherman, Chuck Lofton, has a flat version of himself traveling all over the world.  Recently, he traveled to Marlin Elementary School and met Flat Mr. Hudson.  This photo can also be found on www.wthr.com.  Welcome to Marlin, Flat Chuck!

And the Winner Is...

Our Team Cream versus Team Crimson dragon scales reading competition has ended.  If you have not already heard, our winner was TEAM CRIMSON.  Team Crimson won more "games" than Team Cream during the month of November.  They won a total of TEN games.  Congratulations, Team Crimson!

 

We had so many readers contributing each day to help their team.  One student worked EXTREMELY hard one night to read almost 500 minutes.  IN ONE NIGHT!  Amazing job reading, Marlin students!

Read Me Maybe!

HEY, I JUST MEET YOU

AND THIS IS CRAZY

BUT HERE'S MY TRAILER

SO READ ME MAYBE!

Marlin 6th grade students wrote trailers for some of their favorite books.  Then, with the use of iMovie, the students created actual trailers for our Marlin announcement television.  Everyone who visits our school can watch these AMAZING trailers and maybe even read the books!

Book of the Month: Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie

Learning to tell the truth is a difficult lesson to learn for everyone.  At school, teachers are handling those social situations where the truth cannot be deciphered from a lie.  Students are understanding which friends are the friends that can be trusted.  We are all finding ways to determine how we know when someone is being truthful with us.  Yet, what is most important about truth and lies is how we deal with it within ourselves. 
  
Our December Book of the Month is titled Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie by Laura Rankin.  The story is about a quiet, happy girl named Ruthie who discovers a treasure to add to her collection.  The problem is that Martin claims the treasure belongs to him.  The story is simple, but much can be taken from the story’s lesson.  All of us have been faced with situations like Ruthie’s, but what we do about it is where is learning begins with this book. 
Have fun reading this tiny book with a HUGE lesson!