Hi Susan, We did not put anything on the school site since we spent all our time making the project work. We did send out news/press releases and did not get any action from our Grand Rapids Press or others. Boo hoo.
Also some students helped me create a display of our activities which we took to our local library. Then we took a similar one to an independent library in the inner city along with maps of Michigan and four copies of the book for their use. I did write a grant to our Service Learning program which funded some of it and then our district Title monies bought copies of the book. We even bought small books from the Mackinac Island school to give to our families so they would have insider knowledge of life on the island as they solved the mystery through reading. We learned that we need to shorten up the time frame from two months to just one. Our kick off for last year was an author /illustrator from Michigan who does books using Michigan as the setting. He came to our school and presented his work. This was funded by monies for career education. This year we are having a magician and want to call the event - Discovering the Magic of Learning. We hope to create some kind of tee shirt with this theme logo as a fundraiser too. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Susan Cronk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kim this sounds like an awesome idea. Do you have a link to your school to > show some of what you all did? I love this idea. > susan > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:44 PM, kim lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Last year our second - fifth grade school did a book for all families > > to read. It was the Mystery on Mackinac Island. We had many activites > > including a film and fudge night with a sing along. We did this in > > part to encourage all our families to read at home. March is reading > > month in the state of Michigan so we culminated this project with an > > open house. Familes came to school again to see our writing displays, > > art displays and to enjoy an ice cream social. > > > > We are looking for a title for our next book. Someone suggested the > > Zack File books since they are exciting and easy to read. Does anyone > > know these books or have a different suggestion? Thanks for your > > thoughts. > > > > Kim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mosaic mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
