Mrs. Iwema: Reading Support

Georgetown is full of beautiful, brilliant people. One teacher in particular is especially fabulous and always full of smiles and hugs.  See if you can guess who she is based on the clues below:

Chicken pot pie and hot dogs were sure to bring a smile to her face as a child.  One of her favorite sounds is the wonderful noise of children splashing in the pool.  She is such a talented teacher and always eager to learn something new.  Something she’d like to learn is how to speak the languages of Spanish and Mandarin.  You might notice her wearing a lot of green because it’s her favorite color.  If she wrote a book about her life it would be titled With These Hands.

Can you guess who she is?

It’s our amazingly wonderful, second grade teacher, Mrs. Greenlund!

See if you can figure out who some of our other talented teachers are by visiting other classroom blogs.

Georgetown’s library will be open again this summer!  Be sure to come on in and visit with some of your favorite teachers and check out some great summer reading material.  Library hours are from 10-12pm on Tuesdays beginning June 14 running through August 9 (note: no library hours on Tuesday, July 5).  Hope to see you there!

The RiverTown Crossings Barnes and Noble will be kicking off its summer reading program this Saturday, June 4, at 1:00pm.  Students will be able to create a summer reading “passport”, pick up their summer reading journal, play games, try out the NOOK and learn about creating and publishing books.  The summer reading program is for students in grades 1-6 and will run through September 6, 2011.  Be sure to check it out!!!!

Millionaire winners: Peyton Ward, Cam Cook, Hunter Gulch, Brad Sellers, Quinn Baar, Corey Huyser, Ezra Roerig, Will Haverkamp, Matthew Lawrence, Ryan Mahoney, August VanDam, Chloe Patrick

This past Friday, we honored our newest members of the Georgetown Millionaire’s Club. The Millionaire Club opened with 12 founding members in May of 2010. We honored our second set of millionaires on February 28 of this year. These students have read 1,000,000 words and were honored for doing so in front of the entire school. As millionaire club members, they receive a t-shirt, blog article (You are reading it!) and the Georgetown Nook for take home reading. We will load the book of their choice onto the Nook.

Congratulations to: Peyton Ward, Will Haverkamp, Ryan Mahoney, August VanDam, Brad Sellers, Corey Huyser and Ezra Roerig for joining this May.

HUGE SHOUT OUTS go to Matthew Lawrence for adding another million and to Quinn Baar for adding TWO MILLION!

Remember…anyone can be a millionaire. Links to how to do this can be found here: HOW TO BE A GEORGETOWN MILLIONAIRE

The B&N Nook reader has been provided by you due to your support of the Parent Club fundraisers. We LOVE IT! Our hope is to grow this collection so that more readers can check out NOOKS for their at-home reading.

Barnes and Noble will be running a summer reading program where children can earn free books!  Students keep track of the books they read by completing a reading journal and when they read eight books they can turn the journal in at a local Barnes and Noble store for a free book!  Check out their website for more information.  What a great way to encourage reading throughout the summer!

Happy Reading!