Happy Halloween!

For online Halloween fun, a few websites just for you!

Trick or Treat: Find the shortest routes that will visit all houses and still get you back home before the pumpkin!
Pumpkin carving: Click and drag the mouse to carve the pumpkin.
Make a pumpkin: Click and drag to add features to the pumpkin.
Skeleton Dance: Complete the puzzle to make the skeletons dance!
Halloween with Boowa and Kwala: Puzzles, games, crafts, and singing ghosts!
Online Halloween Games from Ben & Jerry, the ice cream guys!
The Typing of the Ghosts: Ghosts disappear when you type the words on them. Keep your fingers on the home row keys!
Fourth and fifth graders, the link to the page with the Skulduggery Pleasant book trailer is here, at the bottom of the "Book Trailers" list.

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

Ladybug Book #4: Creaky Old House

Kindergarten and first grade listened to the story Creaky Old House, by Linda Ashman. It's an amusing story about a family who tries to fix up the old house that they love living in.

Jacob thought the story started funny when Pa opened the door and the knob fell right off. Max liked when the light landed on Grandpa when he found a new doorknob that he thought was perfect. Caroline's favorite part was when they finally realized that doorknob was too long!

Zoe laughed because the new door the family bought was too wide. Bailey thought their plans for fixing up their house were amazing! Brady liked that the baby in the house fixed the big problem and Keith thought it was pretty funny that the family did all that work for nothing!

The subtitle of this book is A Topsy-Turvy Tale of a Real Fixer-Upper! Just as a subway goes under the ground and a submarine goes under the water, a subtitle goes under the regular title of the book. It really is a topsy-turvy tale and we all agree that this is a very interesting and exciting book! And Michael Chesworth's illustrations are so full of detail they're just fantastic!

NHCS Weather Station

Mrs. Sawicki has set up a weather station for our school!! She got the funding for the weather equipment from the New Hampton Conservation Commission with the help of local resident Pat Schlesinger. Mr. Sawicki from Winnepesauke Electric helped with the wiring and installation. Plymouth State University donated an old computer and the Sawickis supplied the peripherals. Steve Gunn, a weather enthusiast from Bristol, helped with the free software and the link to the Weather Underground, where our collected data will be reported out to the whole world. What an amazing community effort!!

If you're interested in seeing our data, here's the link for our weather station. If it's just the current conditions or the forecast you want, look in the sidebar over here ---> or on the home page of the NHCS website.

Fourth graders will continue to report the morning weather conditions and the daily forecast to all our classrooms - but when they do, they'll be using up-to-the-minute information collected right here at our school. How's that for a real-world application of technology? Thanks to all the people who made that happen!

Ladybug Book #3: Birds

Birds is written by Kevin Henkes and illustrated by Laura Dronzek. Here's what some second graders said about the story:

The pictures really look like birds because of the shape and the vivid colors.

I liked the tree that looked like it said "Surprise!"because it was fun.

The snow picture looked a little like space - the snowflakes looked like stars!

The pictures in this book actually tell the story!

The NHCS Library Media Center purchased this book last year. It's wonderful to have a book in our collection be nominated for the Ladybug Award!