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1. “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle (Plume) (NF-P)
2. “Change of Heart” by Jodi Picoult (Atria) (F-H)
3. “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone) (F-P)
4. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)
5. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet) (F-H)
6. “Horton Hears A Who!” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers) (F-H)
7. “Three Cups Of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin) (NF-P)
8. “The Appeal” by John Grisham (Doubleday) (F-H)
9. “Eat This Not That!” by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding (Rodale) (NF-H)
10. “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words) (NF-H)
11. “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-P)
12. “Remember Me?” by Sophie Kinsella (Dial Press) (F-H)
13. “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment” by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library) (NF-P)
14. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney (Abrams Books for Young Readers) (F-H)
15. “I Heard That Song Before” by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket) (F-P)
16. “Atonement” by Ian McEwan (Anchor) (F-H)
17. “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel” by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press) (NF-P)
18. “The Audacity of Hope:Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press) (NF-P)
19. “Losing It:And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time” by Valerie Bertinelli (Free Press) (NF-H)
20. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers) (F-H)
21. “The Friday Night Knitting Club” by Kate Jacobs (Berkley) (F-P)
22. “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-H)
23. “Bratfest At Tiffanys” by Lisi Harrison (Poppy) (F-P)
24. “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett (NAL Trade) (F-P)

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Alli Banning’s second-grade class logs online to www.freerice.com to practice vocabulary. For every correct answer, the United Nations World Food Program donates 20 grains of rice.
Families will be invited to school to play a math activity or game. This is an annual event, but this year there will be new games to play. An estimation station will give students a chance to estimate the correct number of candies in different sized jars. The closest estimate will win the jar and the candy. Students will also register for a drawing for packaged math games. There will be two games given away per grade-level.
Fourth-grade students have been busy learning to write nonfiction. After two weeks of exposure to many nonfiction selections, students chose topics. They then learned how to research their topics and take notes. After note-taking, the fourth-graders wrote their first drafts, revised them and produced published pieces of nonfiction writing.
The kindergartners in Angie Tribolet’s class are doing an author study unit on Jan Brett. They have been reading many of her stories and learning how to draw her characters. They visited her Web site and found many fun games and interesting facts about Jan Brett. They voted on their favorite Jan Brett story and it was “Hedgie’s Surprise.” The kindergartners have also been learning about dental health. They learned what to do to keep their teeth clean and healthy.
On Feb. 13, the fifth-graders went on a field trip to the State Historical Building to see a performance entitled the “Voices of the Civil War.” Afterwards the students participated in workshops focusing on different aspects of the Civil War era.
Metro Waste Management in conjunction with Des Moines Water Works came to the school and did a presentation for the second-graders on littering, recycling and how we can help take care of our water system.

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