March Madness Continues!!

We are in our second week of our March Madness Tournament of Books!  Did you guess the right books in the Sweet 16?  We will continue with our Elite 8.  This week classes will switch sides so that you get to read or hear about as many books as possible.  If you are in 4th-6th grade, you can check the books out now and start enjoying them.  They are all amazing!  I hope you have fun playing our Forbes March Madness.  Who do you think will win it all and be our Book of the Year?

Do you want to make a cool movie or presentation?

March Madness has started this week in the library. To introduce the books to the upper grades, I used a presentation website called PowToon.  It was a lot of fun to prepare the video and I thought you guys might like to try it out if you have a presentation to do for school.  You do have to sign up for an account, but it is free.  Of course, you can upgrade your account for a cost, but quite honestly, I found everything I needed with the free version.  You can spend hours playing around with the fun backgrounds and pictures.  Check it out!

www.powtoon.com

And You Think it's Hard to Come to School!

Check out this video of children in China who live on a remote mountain top village.  Kids as young as 6 years old climb this ladder every day to go to school.  The ladder climb is a half a mile straight up.  It takes the students 90 minutes to get to school.  So, next time you don't want to climb out of bed to go to school, think of these dedicated kids in China.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/bamboo-ladder-replaced-steel-china-clifftop-village-sichuan/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fbp20170227news-chinasteps&utm_campaign=Content&sf59053399=1