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Read-A-Thon for Ferst Foundation

9/23/2016

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A very worthy cause very near and dear to my heart is the Coweta FERST Foundation. Many of your children may have benefited from this foundation before they started school. The Coweta FERST Foundation is a non-profit public foundation whose mission is to “provide books for local communities to prepare all Georgia preschool children for reading and learning success.”  The books are mailed each month to registered children in Coweta County from birth to age five. Money to pay for these books must be raised by the Coweta County Ferst Team who are all volunteers.
      Ferst Foundation is involving Coweta County Schools in a coin drive to help raise money for these wonderful books. Some of the children may have younger brothers or sisters who are now receiving the books which are mailed at no cost to the preschooler.
      Please consider sending any donation to help us with our coin drive. We only have until Wednesday, September 28th! 
     
 
TUESDAY, September 27th we are having a Read-a-thon! If you bring $2.00 to donate to Ferst Foundation, you may bring a blanket to snuggle with during reading time! All of the money goes directly to Ferst Foundation for books for kids!

TEACHERS! You may purchase jean stickers for $5.00!
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Recovery...from the Book Fair!

9/20/2016

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It takes me forever to get the library back together after a book fair. Yesterday in between helping people I did a variety of things - mostly so I wouldn't kill my back!
One thing is that I started labeling shelves. I have ordered some book stops for the shelves but they aren't here yet. Meanwhile I have a TON of labels left over from last year's reorganization. I don't have many but thought this could help kids find books since they can't seem to find them by looking at spine labels. Seriously can't find that white label! Ahhhhh!
I don't know how long they will last but here's an ATTEMPT at helping the kids!

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...in other news...eBOOKS!

In other news... We FINALLY have Destiny Shelf in operation. Since I purchased some awesome books at the end of the last school year, we now actually have a collection of eBooks.  To search for eBooks on Destiny do the following.
  • Go to Destiny https://cowetaschools.follettdestiny.com
  • Click on Catalog (top left of screen)
  • On the left side of the page you should see several choices. Click on Destiny Discover.
  • Now you may search for eBooks.  You can explore the eBooks we have at JPES. As of Sept. 2016 we have 116 eBooks. You can search by keyword or click on See All to see all of the ones we have. You can read these books online or on a personal device. Some of them allow you to download it to KEEP! Everyone in the building can read the same book at the same time! 
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International Dot Day!

9/15/2016

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Yesterday was International Dot Day! Since I have the book fair I wasn't able to participate as much as I wanted but Mrs. Watford took the idea and RAN with it. In her classes, she has read "The Dot" to all of the students. She took the idea of encouragement and making your own mark to another level. Yesterday we celebrated Dot Day in many ways but Mrs. Watford came up with the idea of giving out dots to people who are showing encouragement to others, being thoughtful, and showing good manners.. Teachers got "Dotty." Kids got Dotty. I was Dotty the Pirate! It's was a fun day!

​We've had a pretty steady flow of customers this week! Thanks to all of the parents and grandparents who have attended so far. Thank you for your patience during the big rush times. Everyone has been very kind and understanding.

I've had some wonderful volunteers for this fair! Usually I get a stack of papers for volunteers and most of them never show up! This year, it has been FANTASTIC! I have been able to let people run the fair while I've gotten a LOT of stuff done and don't have to stay here until 10 p.m. every night of the fair! You guys have been awesome!
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Dotty the Pirate
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Pirate Mary (she no longer has DOTS all over her face and arms) waiting for pirate customers. LAST day of the book fair!
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THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR IS HERE!

9/8/2016

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​It's that time of year when I live at school. THE BOOK FAIR! Today we finally were able to get some stuff done! Look at the progression. It's by no means done but the worst part is over. Getting all of those BOXES sorted out. I wish we just had book fairs with CASES and not 5 million other boxes to find a good display for their contents.
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I told Dr. Dye that I have about a year or two more that I can pull in those carts and I'm DONE. No, not ready to retire.... DONE pulling silver cases of books into the library!
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And BOOM! with the help of Ms. Cone, Ms. Roberts, Mrs. Vaughn and Dr. Mullins it's coming together! Notice the time on the clock. Yes, that's p.m.!
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NOW... for the REAL time consumer! Dr. Susan Mullins donated the paint AND her time to paint the walls. We just finished touching up and we're letting it sit before taking the tape off the wall. It is soooo bright and cheery! We came up with this idea several years ago and just never did it. This will save us from handing paper ALL OVER this hallway. Now we (ummmm Mary Elizabeth Vaughn) can decorate without it taking 2 days to put up that background paper. Thank you Dr. Dye for allowing us to do this. Now we thing that each grade level should have a color so that it's all kinds of pretty soothing colors down the hallways instead of Coweta Cream!
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Jeffery Panther Attends Decatur Book Festival

9/6/2016

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Jeffery and Mrs. Dean ready to leave school Friday afternoon. Heading to the Decatur Book Festival Saturday morning.



​Saturday morning, Jeffery and I set out for our fabulous weekend. I have attended the Decatur Book Festival for the past 9 years. This was Jeffery's first trip. He was so excited when we left the school Friday evening. 
We stayed  with my daughter, Kathryn because she lives a block from where it all happens in Decatur. 


​They shut down the Decatur streets downtown and put tents down the middle of the streets. There are all kinds of books and book related materials all over the city. 
 I found a lot of cool books for the library as well as prizes for readers!
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Saturday morning we hit the town. We checked out all of the booths that had cool looking stuff and then we started meeting authors. There were a lot of authors at this festival. We especially loved the children's books authors.
Now for some of the pictures of Jeffery with a few of the authors he was anxious to meet!
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Jeffery has his copy of Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. We are waiting to hear her talk.
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Kathryn and Jeffery listened very carefully while the authors spoke. Jeffery loved hearing about how they became authors and how they come up with ideas. I don't think he moved or wiggled ONCE!
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Next we listened to Jennifer Holm (center) and Sara Pennypacker (right). Jennifer Holm wrote one of our favorite books, The Fourteenth Goldfish (and many other books). Sara Pennypacker is best known for Clementine books.
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Sharon Creech is on the right. She is being interviewed by another author. She told us that she loves to write free verse.
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Sharon Creech, Jeffery Panther and me! Ms. Creech signed a copy of her new book, Moo to the students of Jefferson Parkway!
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We watched a very funny drawing competition between Tony DiTerlizzi and Dan Santat. They even let kids come up to draw. Jeffery was too shy to volunteer.
During the discussion Sara Pennypacker told the audience that she thought Clementine needed a bit of privacy since we've read 7 books about Clementine and all of the problems she faced as a third grader. One day she may write about Clementine again but Clementine would be older than in the original 7 books. She has started a NEW series about a boy named Waylon.  
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Jeffery took a peek at Tony DiTerlizzi and Dan Santat as they signed books.
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When I introduced Sara Pennypacker and Jennifer Holm to Jeffery, Jennifer Holm asked if they could have their picture made with Jeffery. They LOVED meeting him. It looks like Jeffery is about to grab Clementine from Ms. Pennypacker!
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Finally Sara Pennypacker and Jennifer Holm come in the room for their signing! Jeffery was so excited to meet them.
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It was a LONG day and Jeffery just wanted to chill at Kathryn's apartment. Elf, Kathryn's cat, had some nice long conversations with Jeffery. After all they are BOTH cats! (Notice the Tardis blanket. It's one of Jeffery's favorites... Elf loves it too... and so do I!)
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    My name is Mary Dean. I have been a library media specialist since 2007. I have taught Pre-K, 1st and 2nd grades. I was also an Instructional Technology Specialist and worked with all grade levels as well as teachers.
    Having fun with kids, books, and computers is just the BEST job anyone could have! I am blessed!

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