This month's author is Kevin Henkes. http://www.kevinhenkes.com/
A few of Henkes' books that can be found in our library are: Chrysanthemum, Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, Old Bear and Birds.
Students who earned myOn rewards for summer reading should be bringing home letters regarding the water play and movie and popcorn day. We still have not heard from Capstone about Wal-Mart cards or iPad winners. Once again, thank you parents who encouraged your student to participate this past summer.
If you want to see what books we have available at TDS Library, go to https://dcbe.follettdestiny.com/ then click on The Discovery School. You can search our card catalog from anywhere!
Limeades for Learning, sponsored by Sonic, begins September 26, 2016. You can vote on classroom projects and needs from the Limeadesforlearning.com web site. These are tied to donorschoose.org. We have a project on donorschoose.
5th graders have started the Financial Fitness curriculum in the library as part of a Dickson County pilot. All 5th graders in Dickson County will be taught this curriculum in the library. It is a minimum of 15 lessons. We took a pre-assessment to see what they know about finances. When we finish, we will take a final assessment to see how much they learned. One of our classes had an average score of 51% correct and the other 46% correct. There were 40 questions so most of the students knew about half of the terms and scenarios. There is an online program that corresponds to the curriculum that is available for us to use for free. We will access the web site every other week for students to use their new knowledge in a dynamic way. Students will have a workbook assigned to them but they will be leaving it at school. The state provided the workbooks and sent just enough for our enrollment. A great web site to help parents have honest discussions and role-playing with students is http://wisepockets.umsl.edu/
