UMS Book Fair returns to family shopping!

The Scholastic Book Fair will be hosted by UMS on Oct. 17-21, 2022.

We will continue to have the in-person fair as well as the digital fair. 

Our in-person fair shopping times are:

Tuesday, Oct. 18th 6:00-7:30 pm

Wednesday, Oct. 19th 3:30-5:30 pm

Payment methods include cash, check (made to UMS PTA), credit, eWallet (Scholastic digital gift card)

If you are visiting the in-person fair, don't forget to bring your own bag to the fair!

Students may shop the in-person fair during the school day, if they have cash, eWallet, or a check made to UMS PTA.

Our digital fair will run from October 17-30, 2022.

Here is the shortcut to our school's fair homepage:

We are hosting the book fair to raise money to pay for the school wide subscription to BookFlix (Scholastic's digital book collection of both fiction and nonfiction) as well as to encourage reading!

 

UMS made a Red Clover quilt!

 Students at UMS have been reading this year's Red Clover books. In honor of Nana Akua Goes to School, the students each created a square for our school quilt. Nana shares symbols that are important with her granddaughter by making a quilt. 

Students thought about what is important to them and decided on symbols to represent that on their squares. We have a colorful quilt full of heart!

Keep reading! Ms. Hebert

Spring Book Fair March 21-25, 2022!

 Here is the link to our book fair homepage:

https://www.scholastic.com/bf/unionmemorialschool1

This link is for shopping, eWallet, payment info, and the Scholastic fair flier.

UMS Book Fair March 21-25, 2022!

Students: shop in-person March 21st-25th

Payment methods: cash, check (to UMS PTA), eWallet

Families: shop digitally March 21st-April 3rd

https://www.scholastic.com/bf/unionmemorialschool1

Payment methods: credit, eWallet

Thank you for supporting reading!

Here are a few of the new titles we have added to the collection:

 If you would like to read any of these, come see Ms. Hebert in the library.

A book about food got us thinking...

 We enjoyed the book, Every Night is Pizza Night, by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. The main character, Pipo, believes that pizza is the best food and should be eaten every night. Her parents send her on a quest to try other foods in the neighborhood to see if her favorite stays the same. 

Second graders started thinking about their favorite foods, where they enjoy them, and who shared with food with them. We then made a goal of creating a book of their favorites where everyone has a page to share about their food. Here are a few examples:

Hour of Code

 The Hour of Code is happening across the world during the week of Dec. 6-10, 2021. The goal is to introduce computer science to students all around the world and give them time to code.

Click on the picture to try coding in the game Kodable. We are going to play without saving online for this experience.

• Click the link
• Play online
• Play without saving
• Click Playing at School (if at UMS) or Playing from Home (if you are not at UMS)
• Click your grade level (Kindergarten, First Grade or Second Grade)
• Follow the tutorials (videos tell you how to play)

Making Magical Yets!

 We read the book, the Magical Yet, by Angela DiTerlizzi. In the story, a girl wants to give up on learning to ride her bike after a fall until she discovers her magical yet, who knows she can get it!

The students then made their own yets! Here are a few to enjoy: