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[Thomas Pajewski]

I Love My School Sweepstakes

Everyone who enters the I LOVE MY SCHOOL Sweepstakes in February will
automatically have 29 chances to win 1,000 Bonus ox Tops for our school!
That¹s one winner drawn for each day of the month. Plus, you can come back
and enter every day in February. The more you enter, the greater our
school¹s chances are of winning!

To enter, go to: www.boxtops4education.com/love
<http://www.boxtops4education.com/love> between February 1st and February
29th, 2008.  It¹s that easy!

Virginia Festival of the Book Writing Contest Deadline Nears

The Virginia Festival of the Book is sponsoring a prose and poetry writing
contest for students in grades 5-12. Prose may not exceed 1,000 words, and
poetry may not exceed 2 single-spaced pages. Prose entries do not have to be
fiction! We'll collect entries in the library, or they may be sent directly
to VFH. Deadline is February 26th. For more information visit www.vabook.org
<http://www.vabook.org/> .

MIT Resource Site Tailors College Materials to K-12 Users

A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology resource site for K-12 students
and educators, called MITOpenCourseware, includes more than 2,600 audio and
video clips from college lectures as well as assignments and lecture notes.
Read more at:

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/02/06/22mit.h27.html?tmp=477739421

Reading Guides Online

Do you belong to a Reading Group or want to start one? Then check out
Reading Guides Online, featuring book lists, book recommendations, reading
guides, and more (hint: scroll down to get past the advertising and look for
the link to the publishers' sites)!

http://www.readingguides.com <http://www.readingguides.com/>

Reading Just for Guys

Check out Guys Read, a website developed by author Jon Scieszka to promote
reading among boys. It features book and author lists for both youngsters
and adults, as well as an online anthology of stories written by guys, for
guys. http://www.guysread.com/

On-Line Library Resources

Google Book Search & WorldCat are only a click away!

The University of Virginia, along with several other academic libraries
(including Harvard and Columbia), has partnered with Google to scan all
books published before 1923 (plus others for which copyright permission has
been granted) and post them to the web. Thousands of full texts--including
out of print books--are now accessible and searchable on Google Book Search,
and more are being added daily. If you find a book in UVa's online catalog
(Virgo) that is also available digitally, Virgo will link to it.
http://books.google.com <http://books.google.com/>

Coolest of all, if you decide you want one of these digital books in hard
copy, you can click on About this Book, then find it in library to take you
into WorldCat, a website that allows you to search many libraries at once
for an item and then locate it by zip code at a library nearby. Welcome to
the 21st century! http://www.worldcat.org <http://www.worldcat.org/> .

 
Thanks!
 
Gwedette R. Crummie
Assistant Principal
Baker-Butler Elementary School
434-974-7777 main office
434-964-4684 fax
gcrummie at k12albemarle.org
 


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