Chess Clubs
Chess Club #1 meets this Wednesday, November 2nd
Chess Club #4 meets this Thursday, November 3rd
Reading to Your Children
It is fun, relaxing, and helpful for students at Prairieview to be read to by their parents and others. Research has shown that reading aloud to children enriches their vocabularies and helps them to understand concepts which would be too difficult for them on their own. Being read to also increases students' background knowledge. This helps them make connections to what they are learning in school. So why not make some hot chocolate and sit around sipping it while listening to some interesting reading. Some suggestions for good reading which reinforce school curriculum from the International Reading Association for grades 3-5 are:
Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust by Carol Ann Lee
Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
Hearts of Iron by Kathleen Benner Duble
Just for Elephants by Carol Berkley
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
A Pair of Polar Bears: Twin Cubs Find a Home at the San Diego Zoo by Joanne Ryder
Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World by Jane Breskin Zalben
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Willy Characters by Patricia C. McKissack
Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art by Diane Siebert
Water Street by Patricia Reilly Giff
