Bluestem Award

The fourth and fifth grade students were introduced to this year's Bluestem Award books this week in library! (Third graders will be introduced in a few weeks.)
They learned about the rules, which can also be found here, and had time to learn about some of the books. Here is the full presentation with book summaries for all the books and book trailers for some of them:

A Wish for a Well

Prospect's 5th grade students and EcoPanthers are working on a service learning project, A Wish for a Well. 5th graders were inspired to take action in the fight against the water crisis in South Sudan after reading the Global Read Aloud book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. ​ This project supports the charity​ Water for South Sudan ​through the Iron Giraffe Challenge.

The 2018 Iron Giraffe Challenge calls on schools to each raise a minimum of $1,000, with a goal to raise $150,000 total. The IGC has grown every year, so we are confident that you can help us reach, or even surpass, this goal. All participating schools will be recognized on the WFSS website, and all who complete the challenge will receive a WFSS poster and be entered in a drawing to win different prizes, including Skype calls with Linda Sue Park.

Here is ​a link to Prospect's donation​ ​page​, created by Becky Koziel, ​which​ will inform you ​about​ the goal ​of​ our project. ​Through this page​,​ families ​are given the opportunity to spread awareness and make online donations. In the interest of student safety, please do not include children's first names on the donor line if you are planning on donating. For example, we would prefer "The Smith Family" to "Jane Smith" if Jane is a Prospect Student. We are accepting cash donations at school as well.

Additionally, our students are busy making informational brochures that will eventually come home ​to be shared with family, friends, businesses, etc. We are hopeful the students will be ready to share these before Winter Break. Feel free to share the brochures and the link below on social media to help spread awareness and help us to reach our goal.  ​

Thank you so much for supporting this cause!

District Battle of the Books

This afternoon, Prospect competed in the District Battle of the Books against the other six elementary schools in our district. The team that represented Prospect earned the most points during Prospect's Battle of the Books club. Prospect's team ended up winning second place! Way to go!

Thank you to everyone who participated in Battle this year, and especially the families and students that came to support our team at the District Battle tonight!