Read for the world record!

Here is the link where you can sign up and track your minutes read this summer:

http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/record/

http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=3296241

Huge Success at the Book Fair!

Thank you so much for your support of the library at the Barnes and Noble book fair last week!  The Swain sales for the day were over $10,500 and we will receive over $2100 to purchase new books for the Umanksky Library.  Have an idea of a book we should get?  Comment here and let me know.

Thanks!

Kristen

Everest resources

o      http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/everest.html

o      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/climb/

Barnes and Noble Book Fair is coming!

Please join us for a book fair at Barnes and Noble at the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley next Tuesday, November 10.  This is one of two major fundraisers for the Swain Umansky Library.  Last year, with your support, we beat our goal of $10,000 in sales for the day and earned over $2300 to buy new books for the library!  We are hoping to do even better this year.

 

Author Eli Kowalski will be back signing his new book about the Eagles, Concrete Charlie: An Oral History of Philadelphia's Great Football Legend Chuck Bednarik.  And, if you missed out last year, he will also sign his other book about the Eagles, Looking Back: 75 Years of Eagles History.

 

Got Cheesecake?  New this year, support the book fair by purchasing a whole Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. Choose from:New York Original Cheesecake, Godiva Double Chocolate Cheesecake, Pumpkin Cheesecake, or Carrot Cake Pre-order by Friday, November 6 if you want to pick it up on the night of the book fair, or place your order at the book fair and pick your cheesecake up in time for Thanksgiving or in December.

 

Can’t make it out or have out of town relatives who want to help?  Call in your order to 610-791-3261 and mention the Swain Book Fair.

 

Fun events:

• Face painting
• Scavenger hunt
• Celebrity teacher book readers
• Get your picture taken with Paws

 

Teacher wish lists, Todd and Kyle recommends table, buy holiday gifts – books, cds, dvds, games

Resources for the Constitutional Convention

These are some helpful links in finding out more about your delegate and what he thought about the issues at the Convention:

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html
http://constitutioncenter.org/ncc_edu_Founders.aspx
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/debcont.asp
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/constit.html

Six-word Book Reviews

There’s a new book out called, I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets: Six-word memoirs by teens famous & obscure edited by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser.  Inspired by this book, our sixth graders wrote six-word book reviews on some of their favorite (and not-so-favorite) books.  See how much power and meaning we can fit into six words if we choose them carefully.

 

Nix Voldemort, but first destroy the horcruxes.  –Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

He’s so young, yet so talented.  –The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznik

This book is sweet as honey.  –Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne

Girl witches, broomsticks, bras, and spells.  –Bras and Broomsticks, Sarah Mlynowski

She wasn’t afraid, but still knew.  –Tuck Everlasting, Natlie Babbit

Dive tail first into this book.  –Ingo, Helen Dunmore

Four sisters, one dog – sick nasty.  –The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall

Not for reading.  It’s for devouring!  --The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan

The most freaking awesome book ever.  –Around the world in 80 Days, Jules Verne

Don’t be a snail; write emails.  –Snail Mail No More, Paula Danzige

Three big kids, many little riddles.  –The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart

An amazing, tragic, and heartbreaking tale.  –Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson

Hate it.  Don’t read it.  Yuk!  --Day of the Unicorn, Molly Hunter