Celebrate Read Across America on Feb. 28

The National Education Association (NEA) sponsors the Read Across America event each year on or near March 2, the birthday of beloved children's author Dr. Seuss, who epitomizes a love of learning.

NEARI will celebrate Read Across America on Saturday, February 28, at Warwick Mall.

The fun begins at 10:00 a.m. and continues until 4:00 p.m. Read Across America is free to the public and includes pencils for every child; a chance to register to win prizes donated by NEARI; puzzle and activity sheets; reading advice for parents; a book give-away table, sponsored by NEARI education support professionals; and an opportunity to visit and pose with Cat in the Hat herself. 

Population Density - Room 9

Grade 4 is wrapping up a world geography unit by looking at population density. Students put their countries' area and population into Excel, and we sorted and ran a formula to see how many people lived in each square mile.

Then we practiced reading visual representations of data with this map:

source: wikipedia.org

Which continents are the most densely populated?

Here's a hint ... one of the cities on one of the continents is Tokyo, where the subway is so crowded that people get squished onto the train cars by professional "pushers." Here's video evidence:

Mock Caldecott Voting - Room 3

So far, only Room 3 has been able to cast their Mock Caldecott votes (everyone else has had snow days on their library days!). Here they are in action:

Sam and Dave took home an OFFICIAL Caldecott Honor from the ALA!