REMINDER JR. HIGH STUDENTS:

Science Fair Experiments!!!

See how time goes by so quickly….it’s already time to get those science experiments rolling. We will be working on presentation and displays this upcoming week in science.  If you would like to speak to me about your project personally, I will be available after school, Monday and Wednesday.  Please be sure to let me know you will be meeting with me first.  The Science Fair will be here in no time…  

January Service Learning Project

Grade 4 will be in charge of this months Service Learning Project.  

• BookEnds, a non-profit organization, recycles children’s books with the help of student volunteers and community partnerships to develop libraries in schools and youth organizations.
• BookEnds’ main source of books is recycled children’s books. These are collected by student volunteers in schools and service organizations while they learn the value of community service.
• BookEnds strives to instill the value of community service in its student volunteers. More than 140,000 youth have been involved in organizing book drives, collecting, sorting and delivering more than 1.2 million books into the hands of 300,000 children in the greatest need of books.
• BookEnds has completed more than 441 libraries. (More than 300,000 students are benefiting from the book donations.)
• BookEnds is a nonprofit organization that began in 1993 with 8-year-old Brandon Keefe, a kid who wanted to make a difference.
• Critical to BookEnds’ success is the ability to partner with corporations and service organizations that provide the resources to turn a child with a new book into a reader. 

• BookEnds’ recipients are those schools that are the most in need and have demonstrated a commitment to actively use the book donations to improve children’s literacy. 
• BookEnds increases the ratio of books per student in the schools and organizations we serve by a minimum of 5 books per child. 
• Each dollar donated to BookEnds results in more than $5 worth of books for kids.

 Last year we brought in over 400 books, let’s start the new year right by bringing in new/gently used/old books (none that are coming apart).  Your child will be given a brown paper bag on Wednesday, January 9. Fill as much of the bag up with books and bring it back to school.  Let’s see which class can bring in the most amount of books.  ~Ms. Bhakta Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves tomankind, which are delivered down from generation togeneration as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn,~ Joseph Addison  ~