The Book Fair Is Here!

11/27/2013

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The Lyman Book Fair is here! We're all set up in the library, ready to begin!

The Book Fair runs during conference week, December 2nd through 6th, and will be open late on Wednesday and Thursday to accommodate parents who might like to visit before or after their conferences.

For hours and more information, please check our online book fair site at: http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/johnlymanelementaryschool
You can also purchase books through the online site (if you can't make it to the library) through December 17th.

If you are able to volunteer, your help would be greatly appreciated! We need volunteers to help students pick out books on Monday and Tuesday, and volunteers to help ring up students and parents Wednesday through Friday. If you're able to help, please email me as soon as possible.

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Mystery Skype!

11/21/2013

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Over the past few weeks, 3/4 classes in the library have been practicing for a Mystery Skype. They've learned US geography and map-reading skills in order to prepare.
Today, we finally had a chance to put those skills to use! Mrs. Sorensen's class played the Mystery Skype game with another class somewhere in the United States, and through careful deduction and teamwork, they were able to discover that the other class was located in the state of Illinois! Best of all, they figured it out before the Illinois team guessed that we were in Connecticut!
Mystery Skyping requires each team to ask each other yes/no questions to logically deduce where the other team is located. Below, you can see a video that another school made of their first Mystery Skype.

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