Fifth and Sixth Graders enjoy Poetry Alive!

Learning to be trees?

Students bring the poems to life.

More photos from Poetry Alive!

Teachers and students from the 3rd and 4th grades join in the action with the Poetry Alive actors.

Poetry Alive visits LSA

Poetry is fun!

First and Second Graders become flowers for a poem as fellow students watch.

Preview of Coming Attractions

April is Poetry Month. A team from Poetry Alive will visit on Thursday, April 1. Poem in Your Pocket Day will be Tuesday, April 20. Students and faculty members are encouraged to have a poem in their pocket to read when requested to by a "mystery reader."

Book Swap Now Going On

Our book swap is underway. Students, teachers, and parents brought in books last week. This week they may come in and select one book for each that they brought. We are enjoying getting "new" books without having to buy them! Any books left over at the end of the "swap" will be offered for sale beginning Wed., March 24 and continuing through Wednesday, March 31. Prices will be very nominal.

WE MADE IT!

At approximately 2 p.m. we made it to the end of the Mississippi River!! Additionally, we read enough minutes to equal 798 more miles, so our rafting LSA reader made it even farther out into the Gulf of Mexico. Thanks to all our classes for their special emphasis on reading today. LSA Warriors really do READ!!

Reading Tom Sawyer

Fourth graders read Tom Sawyer this week. They read part of it for Read Across America today.

Read Across America Continues

We're to Kentucky now!!
It appears that the Cat in the Hat visited one of our classes earlier today to help in our celebration!

At Noon on Read Across America Day

By noontime we were to Hannibal, home of Mark Twain, author of our Alabama Reads novel - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Today is the birthday of another author, Dr. Seuss. We are celebrating both of these today with an emphasis on Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer as we read our way down the Mississippi river.

READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY

We started our raft trip down the Mississippi River where the river begins. For every minute our students read, we moved 3 1/2 miles down the river.

Tom Sawyer came to visit and watch as we moved our raft.

Mrs. Hodges class wins the Pig Race!

The high selling classes in the annual magazine sales drive each earned a pig for the pig race. The cheering was loud as students supported their favorite pigs. Mrs. Hodges 5th grade's pig was the "fastest" and first across the finish line. Her class will receive a "Pig Out Party." Thanks to all of you who purchased magazine subscriptions and helped us have a successful fundraiser for the library and the Junior Class.

LSA Warriors Read!

March is a month of celebrating reading at LSA. March 2 is Read Across America Day, and during the entire month we'll be celebrating with Alabama Reads as we read and do other activities related to Alabama's Big Read of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. We have a paperback book swap the first two weeks of March to encourage all of our students, faculty, and parents to read. Our high school book club is reading Tom Sawyer and will discuss it at our March meeting.

First Grade Book Fair Shoppers and HS Helpers

Shopping is so much easier with our "Shopper's Assistants." Leadership Class students enjoy assisting the first graders and also enjoy reading to them when shopping is complete.

More photos from Book Fair

Fall Book Fair brings older and younger students together

The fall book fair offers a great opportunity for our older students to serve our younger students. Members of the high school Leadership Classes acted as "shoppers' aides" for our Kindergarten students at the book fair, then read to the students afterward.

More photos from the TRW luncheon

Wow!! Someone with imagination made the cupcakes that the winners had for dessert. But before dessert came that wonderful ziti - and that was reality - not imagination!

Teen Read Winners Dine in Style

(Left) Coach M. and Mrs. A. serve two of the Teen Read Week winners a delicious luncheon from Provino's.
Pictured far left are the other three winners. Each of the winners collected clues in the TRW Scavenger Hunt and on Friday put those clues together to come up with the answer - imagine. An imagination is definitely required to Read beyond reality @ your library (the TRW theme).

More photos from our author visit

Left: Mr. Hainds shows us the longleaf pine.

Right: Students see the Hodges Meteorite.

Author Roger Reid visits LSA!

Our 5th - 8th graders enjoyed a visit by author Roger Reid and his colleague Mark Hainds, from the Longleaf Alliance, on October 6. Mr. Reid told the students that he began saving all his writings in the sixth grade, and he shared with us about his research for his books Longleaf and Space, the writing process for his books, and excerpts from the books. Mr. Hainds told us about the longleaf pine and the longleaf ecoysystem. Mr. Reid also showed us a replica of the Hodges Meteorite and a real iron-nickel meteorite and fossil-containing rocks. We look forward to his next book about Jason and to finding our where it will be set! We know it will be in Alabama!

New Reading Club for High Schoolers Meets

At the organizational meeting of our high school book club, we decided to read Space by Roger Reid and It's Only Temporary by Sally Warner for our October discussion. All high school students are invited to read these and join us on Tuesday, October 13 for our second meeting. At that time we'll also make our final decision on what to read for November.