A book report over War Horse is due on Monday, February 25th, 2013.
Book reports must be typed and between 1-2 pages in length.
Do NOT put your name on your book report as the best ones in the 4th grade will be entered in a contest.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning Writing Contests
SPRING 2013
2013 Young People’s Poetry Contest
Grades K-8
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, April 30
Public Reading: Friday, June 21, 5:30 pm
Celebrating National Young People’s Poetry Week. Students in kindergarten through 8th grade are invited to submit a poem on the topic of the student’s choice. One entry per student, please. Participation is FREE! Winners will be chosen in the following categories: *K-2nd grades, *3rd-5th grades, and *6th-8th grades. Please include a cover sheet with student’s name, age, grade, school, parent/guardian’s name, parent/guardian’s email, and parent/ guardian’s phone number. Students’ names should NOT appear on poems. Postmark or deliver submissions by April 30 to: Young People’s Poetry Contest, Carnegie Center, 251 W. Second St., Lexington, KY 40507. Finalists will be notified by May 18. Finalists will be invited to participate in the Young People’s Poetry reading at the Carnegie Center during Gallery Hop on June 21.
Grades K-8
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, April 30
Public Reading: Friday, June 21, 5:30 pm
Celebrating National Young People’s Poetry Week. Students in kindergarten through 8th grade are invited to submit a poem on the topic of the student’s choice. One entry per student, please. Participation is FREE! Winners will be chosen in the following categories: *K-2nd grades, *3rd-5th grades, and *6th-8th grades. Please include a cover sheet with student’s name, age, grade, school, parent/guardian’s name, parent/guardian’s email, and parent/ guardian’s phone number. Students’ names should NOT appear on poems. Postmark or deliver submissions by April 30 to: Young People’s Poetry Contest, Carnegie Center, 251 W. Second St., Lexington, KY 40507. Finalists will be notified by May 18. Finalists will be invited to participate in the Young People’s Poetry reading at the Carnegie Center during Gallery Hop on June 21.
2013 7th Annual Next Great Writers Contest
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 10
Public Reading: Friday, June 21, 7:30 pm
Writers are invited to submit manuscripts of fiction or nonfiction prose (up to 12 double-spaced pages) or poetry (up to 5 poems). There is a $10 fee per entry, payable to the Carnegie Center. Entries should also include a cover sheet complete with writer’s name, address, e-mail address, and phone number; names should NOT appear on the manuscript itself. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Entries must be received or postmarked by Friday, May 10 at 5:00 pm. Send entries to: The Next Great Writers Contest, Carnegie Center, 251 W. Second St, Lexington, KY 40507. The cash prize is $150 for first place and $100 for second place. Winning authors and those selected to read will be notified by June 1. The Carnegie Center’s Next Great Writers Reading will take place Friday, June 21 at 7:30 pm. Up to 12 writers will be invited to read. Reading is open to the public.
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 10
Public Reading: Friday, June 21, 7:30 pm
Writers are invited to submit manuscripts of fiction or nonfiction prose (up to 12 double-spaced pages) or poetry (up to 5 poems). There is a $10 fee per entry, payable to the Carnegie Center. Entries should also include a cover sheet complete with writer’s name, address, e-mail address, and phone number; names should NOT appear on the manuscript itself. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Entries must be received or postmarked by Friday, May 10 at 5:00 pm. Send entries to: The Next Great Writers Contest, Carnegie Center, 251 W. Second St, Lexington, KY 40507. The cash prize is $150 for first place and $100 for second place. Winning authors and those selected to read will be notified by June 1. The Carnegie Center’s Next Great Writers Reading will take place Friday, June 21 at 7:30 pm. Up to 12 writers will be invited to read. Reading is open to the public.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
NEW WEB-LINKS!!!
On the right side of our blog there is a long list of educational website links and Ms. Decker just keeps finding and adding more!
BONUS POINTS-
Visit a few of the old or new links and write a comment telling me which ones you tried, which ones you liked and why you liked them!!!
BONUS POINTS-
Visit a few of the old or new links and write a comment telling me which ones you tried, which ones you liked and why you liked them!!!
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Santa Sends Us "Shakespeare"
Apparently, Shakespeare was getting into loads of trouble at the North Pole, so Santa sent him for us to watch. Or maybe so he can watch us. I wonder...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
What the “Star Wars” Sale Means for Tech Education
Lucas’s move is a case
study in how entertainment and education interact.
Last week, George Lucas sold the “Star Wars” franchise to Disney, for
a cool four billion. Your office nerd probably came into work in a terrible
mood the next morning. Actually, you probably were that nerd (I am, for one).
If “Star Wars” lost its integrity when it expanded into the prequels business,
goes the argument, it only stands to suffer further now that it’s entering the
sequels business. Disney will reportedly put out another “Star Wars” film every
couple of years, perhaps in perpetuity, or until some Death Star obliterates
our meager, naïve planet.
Actually, George Lucas’s sale of “Star Wars”
represents a great windfall for technology education--and might even have been
a good move for the series.
Hollywood Reporter tells us that most of the $4.05 billion that
came from the sale will go to straight to Lucas’s philanthropic efforts. You
may or may not know this about Lucas, but he’s obsessed with education; it’s
basically his principal extra-curricular activity. He is chairman of Edutopia,
which is part of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. And Edutopia has an express
interest in STEM (science, tech, engineering, and math) education. So America
just got about $4 billion worth of smarter, perhaps, when it comes to
understanding science and tech.
That’s a lot of money. But allow me to complicate
matters for a moment. The “Star Wars” franchise is one of the most successful
of all time, and captivates the minds of children everywhere. What if the “Star
Wars” films themselves had power as a way of exciting youth about science and
technology--and what if Lucas squandered the opportunity to steer the franchise
in such a direction?
If he did, all the better. I’ve been a close
student of Lucas’s past attempts to meld education and
entertainment--“edutainment,” it’s called--and have concluded that it’s a
noble, but failed, experiment. Consider Lucas’s series, “The Adventures of
Young Indiana Jones.” The series was supposed to teach kids about history, but
as I wrote in 2008, the series suffered from a sort
of zero-sum game between its educational and entertainment components. The
smarter the show was, the more boring it was; the more exciting it was, the
less educational.
And that’s fine. I felt the same way about the
“Star Wars” franchise. I’m a highly rational person, hardly one to give in to
the sway of mysticism in life. But in movies, I love it. For me, the greatest
tragedy of the first “Star Wars” prequel was the way it intended to give an ad
hoc scientific underpinning to what made the force strong with this one, weak
with another. Turns out it had something to do with something called midi-chlorians.
I zoned out of the chemistry lesson and tuned back in for the lightsaber
battles.
There are surely works of art and entertainment
that include science and technology instruction to good effect; it’s also true
that including “soft” science in entertainment can serve as a sort of gateway
drug to the harder stuff. But in pure popcorn entertainment like the “Star
Wars” franchise, the solution Lucas has finally struck upon--make money off the
entertainment, and put that money straight into science and tech education--is
a sound one.
And if I may indulge in a bit of blasphemy, maybe by letting go of the
“Star Wars” franchise and putting it into the hands of pure entertainers, the
next movies may be much better than we anticipate.
Monday, November 26, 2012
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Captain Underpants Essay Due 11-15-12!
The Captain Underpants essay on how to deal with a bully in a nice way is due on Nov. 15th. This essay is for extra credit, but I will submit them for our grade to the Scholastic contest.
Friday, October 19, 2012
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