{"id":2658,"date":"2012-03-02T19:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2012-03-02T19:47:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T00:47:04","slug":"read-across-america-day-and-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2012\/03\/02\/read-across-america-day-and-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Across America Day and Rockets!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was such an exciting day!\u00a0 To celebrate Read Across America Day we had two events where we celebrated books.\u00a0 The first one took place this morning before lunch.\u00a0 Two published authors came and read Pete the Popcorn<\/span> which they wrote!\u00a0 It was about how everyone is different but so important!\u00a0 After reading the book the two authors, Nick and Joseph, asked for a few examples of our friends and teachers to share what they liked about each other.\u00a0 Then, they told us to keep encouraging each other and filling each other’s buckets!\u00a0 I thought it was such a great connection to what we already do each day!<\/p>\n

This afternoon we celebrated Dr. Suess’ birthday!\u00a0 A group from Pi Phi and Butler came to our school and had a surprise birthday party!\u00a0 They gave each child a Cat in the Hat hat, a bookmark, and a delicious homemade cookie!\u00a0 The Cat in the Hat actually came and read The Cat in the Hat<\/span>.\u00a0 Then the group hosting the party donated over 200 books to the Butler Lab School!!\u00a0 We will now be able to share these books among the four classrooms this year and continue to foster a love for reading and books in our classrooms!<\/p>\n

We continued to work on the rocket today!\u00a0 The children decided that our rocket boosters that originally were going to be toilet paper rolls needed to be sturdy.\u00a0 As we were looking around the room it appeared that we could use the canister that our snack was in for our boosters!\u00a0 So, we asked the other teachers if we could use theirs once they were finished.\u00a0 As the day was coming to a close, I read Regards to the Man in the Moon<\/span>by Ezra Jack Keats.\u00a0 This book is consumed by the thought that imagination is what drives us and should be celebrated!!\u00a0 It is about a friend who uses his imagination to travel into space and see all of the beautiful things around him!\u00a0 At the end of the story it says, “Soon all the kids were ready to take off.”\u00a0 I told our friends this afternoon after we were done reading to be ready to “take off” on Monday.\u00a0 There is some fun stuff awaiting them!<\/p>\n

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Our rocket coming to life!<\/p><\/div>\n

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After the children came back from the party, this is what Emily and Sydney did!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Cat in the Hat!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our friends engrossed in watching the Cat in the Hat read!<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of the authors of "Pete the Popcorn" celebrating with some of our friends their compliments towards each other.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was such an exciting day!\u00a0 To celebrate Read Across America Day we had two events where we celebrated books.\u00a0 The first one took place this morning before lunch.\u00a0 Two published authors came and read Pete the Popcorn which they wrote!\u00a0 It was about how everyone is different but so important!\u00a0 After reading the book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}