Book Fair Days

St. Therese had a special guest for the opening day of our book fair. Clifford greeted students and families in the afternoon carpool line. All students were able to visit the book fair today during library time. It was a celebration of books and reading!

Lights, Camera, Book Fair!

See all book fair details on the St. Therese Book Fair Homepage:

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/sainttherese

It starts next Monday, March 30, and runs through Friday, April 3, at the Fish Fry.

If you would like to volunteer to help set up, pack up, or help during the fair, please contact me by e-mail nolteowen@yahoo.com or phone 601-952-0643.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Computers and Quilts

We tied up all loose ends end and put the binding on our exploration into the underground railroad, quilts, and Black History. Yesterday, Mrs. T. and I used the computer lab to teach searching and computer navigation skills by using a website about the Gee's Bend quilters from Alabama. We learned about archives and archival sources by clicking through photographs of the Gee's Bend community taken by Arthur Rothstein in the 1930's and 1940's. Their lives were very different from ours!

Then, we pretended to be curators of our own museum through an interactive portion of the website that allows the user to create a virtual exhibit. Finally, we designed our own symmetrical and asymmetrical quilt blocks with another interactive feature on the website.

All over St. Therese, "learning quilts" adorn the hallways. Have you seen them?