Fulton Elementary School’s Learning Resource Center Website

Our annual January Reading Incentive has come to a close, but has left behind many smiles and miles and miles of reading minutes!   FES students easily made their goal of 100,000 minutes during the month of January.  The FES Reading Pace Car now carries many “sponsorship” stickers of students names who have read 250, 500, 750 and/or 1000 minutes during the month.   Students enjoyed the various activities and enjoyed seeing Elliott Sadler’s #38 M&M NASCAR when it visited Fulton Elementary on January 29th.  Congratulations to all students for a job well done!

We will be adding more January Reading Incentive pictures onto the River Bend District homepage.  Check under the “Photos” tab and scroll down to the Fulton Elementary School section to find more pictures of events at FES.

Here are some websites that might be fun to explore in honor of

Johnny Appleseed’s birthday on Saturday, Sept. 27!

Find the Hidden Pictures.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/apples.htm#apples

Apple “Bytes” Memory Game.   http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~greentown/Apples/Concentration/concentrate.htm

Bob the Builder Apple Antics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/fullscreen/bobthebuilder/fun/apples.shtml

A Bushel of Information on Wisconsin Apples

(Hint:  Arrow down on this “Educator” page to find the activities)

http://www.waga.org/ed.html

Design an Apple Person

http://apple-corps.westnet.com/apple_corps.2.html

Who Wants to Be  A Millionaire (Facts about apples)

http://www.quia.com/rr/2619.html

Do you know the names of apples ?

http://www.quia.com/hm/18397.html

Online coloring page and story of Johnny Appleseed

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/cgi-bin/paint/fak1sjekgaAekEoBeaqorfaPLmfaDsnf/school/usa/people/Appleseed.shtml

Constitution Day 2009. 

As part of Fulton Elementary School’s Constitution Day activities, students and teachers must work as a TEAM to complete a special challenge from the LRC.   The following “links” will help students to find the interactive sites they need to complete their challenge.  Check your class’ “Squash Book” for more details!

Play Which Founder Are You?

Go to:

http://www.constitutioncenter.org/FoundersQuiz/

Help your teacher fill in the questions and

discover which founder of the Constitution

your teacher is similar to.

Play the Bill of Rights Game

Go to:

http://www.constitutioncenter.org/BillOfRightsGame/

Find the items needed and have your teacher

print out and your class ratify the Bill of Rights

when you have completed the game.

Explore Ben Franklin’s ABC’s

Go to:

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/alphabet/index.html

Choose at least three alphabet letters to explore.

Coloring With Ben

Go to:

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/games/coloringbk.html

Print out a “Coloring with Ben” page and complete it.

Ben’s Mystery Word Puzzle

Go to:

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/games/acrostic.html

Complete this acrostic puzzle to find a word

that we have by being an American.

Interactive Games for Grades 3-5

Go to:

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/games/interactive.html

If you want to play an interactive game on your

SMARTboard check out this site.

Interactive Games for Grades K-2

Go to:

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/games/interactive.html

If you want to play an interactive game on your

SMARTboard check out this site.

Motions for the Preamble

Go to:

http://www.nccs.net/constitution-week/preamble.pdf

Practice the motions to saying the Preamble.  

Try to memorize the beginning words and motions of

“We the People of the United States”.

We are excited to welcome you to our new Fulton Elementary School LRC page!  We invite you to watch our site as we continue to add news of upcoming events, suggested reading, and helpful homework help!   Use the tabs at the top of the page to locate additional information.  As the warmer weather approaches and the daylight hours increase, we would like to remind  you to make sure to leave a little time for a family reading time at the end of your day.  Why not stop in and pick out a book that you can read together as a family?  Miss Buikema has some suggestions for you to choose from. 

Watch this space for Miss Buikema’s reading recommendations, and feel free to submit a recommendation of your own!  

What has Miss Buikema been reading lately?  Several new books that have come into the LRC over the past couple of weeks have peeked her curiousity.  Come in and check out some of these new titles:

Maybe a Bear Ate It!  Written by Robie H. Harris.  Have you ever lost a library book before?  Then this is a picture book you must read!  A popular seller at this year’s Scholastic Book Fair. (Grades K-2)

Fortune’s Magic Farm, by Suzanne Selfors.  Everything changes for ten-year-old Isabelle when she discovers that she has a family and comes to a land that is filled with wondrous things.  But Isabelle remembers those that helped her in hard times, and goes back to make sure their lives have some magic of their own.   (Grades 3-5)

The Mozart Question.  Written by Michael Morpurgo.  This book received rave reviews from the editors of School Library Journal.  A thoughtful but inspiring fiction book which looks at how musical talents saved some of the Jews from death within the concentration camps, but changed the way that they felt about their music for the rest of their lives.  This is fast read, but a heart-tugging story. (Grades 4-5)

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  This classic tale is one that Miss Buikema has to re-read each spring - just for the love of the story!  If you haven’t read it before come and check it out — or check out the audio version of the book and listen or read along.  (Great Family Reading!)

Have  you read “The White Giraffe” or “11 Birthdays” yet?  They are the next two on Miss Buikema’s reading stack.  Feel free to send her an email with your review of either of these or something else that you have read and enjoyed!  Email Miss Buikema at nbuikema@roe55.k12.il.us  .