Sunday, October 14, 2012

It's Ladybug Time!

Mrs. Alibrandi introduces this year's Ladybug Award Books
One of the literary highlights at HMS is participating in the Ladybug Award program. New Hampshire students in preschool-grade three listen to the ten nominated books, and then vote for their favorite book in November. We will announce the winning book for our school, and then will send our votes off to the State library, where they will count the votes from across the state. The winner will be announced in January, and the author and illustrator will receive a special award.

Mrs. Alibrandi and Mrs. Bohlman visited classes to introduce this year's books, and to read one of the books on the list, The Perfect Square by Michael Hall. Mrs. Bohlman found some fancy origami paper, and students in some of the classes were challenged to think what they could make out of a perfect square. What did Mrs. Alibrandi and Mrs. Bohlman make out of theirs? Ladybugs, of course!
Student points out what he sees in the perfect square
Students created pictures from their "perfect squares."

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