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:

A UMS Book Fair

 We have a Book Fair Coming!

The Fall Book Fair will be online and in-person. Students only may shop for books at school. Families may shop together online Oct. 11-24, 2021. Our Book Fair is to support reading and to make sure each classroom has access to BookFlix (which is a database to hundreds of read alouds). Our fair will run October 12-15, 2021. Soon you will see a flyer coming home highlighting a few titles found at the fair. I will also be putting together an order form with pictures of the book cases. Families can look at the order form, circle what they want, send the order form with payment to school, and the order will be sent home in backpacks (or special arrangements for surprises can be made). Thank you for supporting reading! 

Book Fair Homepage with info, shopping link, and eWallet link:

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

Here is a copy of the order form that was sent home on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021 if families want to purchase from the in-person book fair happening Oct. 12th-15th.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DCj1QfaFd2ZFR1-WBEw3FuXJN6VBpVb3ccB_kzsGUec/edit?usp=sharing

BOGO Book Fair June 10 & 11, 2021!

 We are having a BOGO Book Fair at Field Day this year! You Buy One and Get One!

Pleased to say we are now fully staffed for this event!

The BOGO Fair will be held outside at UMS. The students may shop during the day. Adults may shop in the evening. Purchase 1 book and get 1 book (of equal or less price) free. We will be accepting payment of credit cards or eWallet (Scholastic's digital payment) during this event (checks, if needed, made to UMS).

Get ready for summer reading here!

We also have an online fair going at the same time if you would like to shop from home:

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

To create an eWallet account go to our book fair homepage:

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

This allows your student to shop during the day with a budget and not carry money to school!

We hope this will add to your student's reading joy for the summer by having options that work for families. 

We are having an Online Book Fair!

 

March 22 - April 4, 2021  

UMS will have it's first online book fair!

Families will be able to shop right from home and have the books sent right to you. 

The online store will have even more choices then usual. 

If you shop from our school link, then the school will receive 25% of the profits to provide new resources for our readers!

Click on the online fair sign below to enter the school link:

We hope that your readers can find interesting books to read. Continuing reading practice will help prevent summer slide and bring hours of enjoyment.

Teacher wish lists will be different this year in the digital fair, if you wish to buy a book for the classroom, create an eWallet account for the classroom teacher (like a digital gift card) so the teacher can shop for the book. This is found using the link above.

Happy New Year of Reading!