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  • What's New in Media News?

    Posted by Diana Hicks at 6/7/2010 8:00:00 PM
    For those of you who are fans of author, Beverly Cleary, a feature film about Ramona & Beezus will open in theaters, July 23.  Ramona Quimby will be played by Joey King, and her big sister Beezus will be played by Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place).
     
    Also!!! PBS Kids will launch a new series "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!  The series is designed to promote science learning for Pre-K children.  The new series will begin September 6, 2010 on PBS Kids TV stations.
     
    Next Blog - Summer Reading Lists.
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  • Audio Books

    Posted by Diana Hicks at 5/6/2010 1:00:00 PM
    Don't forget to add audio books to your home library.  According to research, audio books help improve reading fluency.  They are also a great tool to excite beginning readers who want to read the challenging books but have not yet acquired the skills.
     
    Visit speaker StorylineOnline to hear award winning books read by members of the Screen Actors' Guild.
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  • Get creative with Eggs

    Posted by Diana Hicks at 3/31/2010 8:00:00 PM
    Tired of the same old eggs for Easter.  I have listed below a couple of great sites that will help you get a little more creative for spring.
     
    The first site is from Chateau Meddy Bemps:  A wonderful site with games, stories  and pages for decorating eggs.   http://www.meddybemps.com/easter/index.html
     
    The next site gives you the history and techniques in decorating Ukrainian (Pysanky) Eggs.  Printable templates you can color.  It is interesting to find out what the different colors, patterns and symbols represent.  Great site!!!   http://www.papereggs.com/pysanky.htm
     
    There is a wonderful book called "Rechenka's Eggs" by Patricia Polacco that would be a great read-aloud for the season.
     
    Have a wonderful holiday.
     
    Mrs. Hicks
     
     
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  • March- Women's History Month

    Posted by Diana Hicks at 3/21/2010 2:00:00 PM
    March is the month to celebrate Women's History Month.  We honor the many courageous women throughout the history of the world and the United States:
     
    Little known facts:
     
     On the night of April 26, 1777, Sybil Ludington, age 16, rode through towns in New York and Connecticut warning that the Redcoats were coming to Danbury, CT. She gathered enough volunteers to help beat back the British the next day. Her ride was twice the distance of Paul Revere's. Her hometown was renamed after her.
     
    On June 28, 1778, while "attending the [artillery] piece" with her husband at the battle of Monmouth, N.J., a cannon shot passed between the legs of Mary Hays (Molly Pitcher) tearing off the lower part of her skirt -- and she kept on loading her cannon. When her husband was wounded, she either fired the cannon once alone or several times, depending on witnesses. In 1822, she was awarded a soldier's pension of $40 a year.
     
     In October of 1778 Deborah Samson of Plymouth Massachusetts disguised herself as a young man and presented herself to the American army as a willing volunter to oppose the common enemy. She enlisted for the whole term of the war as Robert Shirtliffe and served in the company of Captain Nathan Thayer of Medway, Massachusetts. For three years she served in various duties and was wounded twice -- the first time by a sword cut on the side of the head and four months later by a shot through the shoulder.
     
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