April 8, 2018
On Monday, April 2, Kwame Alexander’s bus stopped at An Unlikely Story in Plainville, MA for the first stop on his Rebound tour on the day his book came out into the world. It was incredible to be in...
View ArticleApril 22, 2018
It’s an exciting week at HMS! If you have completed your GENRE CHALLENGE with at least 8 DIFFERENT genres you don’t typically read, bring it to the library on Monday. So far we have 31 entries...
View ArticleApril 29, 2018
How is it that we are entering the month of May this week? Where did this school year go? I am feverishly sifting through new titles to order so that we can do an EPIC book tasting at the end… Continue...
View ArticleMay 6, 2018
Today is the day! I hope to see you all at this really fun family event! The mud pit is right outside of the library, and it has been exciting to see it there all week! Notices came home with… Continue...
View ArticleMay 13, 2018
This Thursday is our first district-wide “Device Free Evening.” We hope your family chooses to participate! ———— Our students DEVOUR the Who Was? biography series. (You can see a previous post here)....
View ArticleMay 20, 2018
I cannot believe this week is already here. It is the last week of the year that students will check out books from the Hampden Meadows Library. When students take books out, they get to keep them for...
View ArticleMay 27, 2018
Great news! This week we will begin our EPIC summer reading book tasting! I’ve teamed up with the public library to order a TON of recent titles your children will enjoy. They will spend the next few...
View ArticleJune 3, 2018
Your children are writing down new titles they hope to read this summer and will be coming home with their lists in a two weeks. The good news is that the public library has all of these books...
View ArticleJune 10, 2018
Summer Reading image from worldartsme.com This week we will finish our “book tasting” including three table rotations with about 7 stacks of new titles at each table. It has been loud and messy and...
View ArticleJune 17, 2018
SUMMER This is the last Book Bites post of the 2017-2018 school year. By Monday afternoon every child in our building will have brought home their individually-tailored summer reading list based on...
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