Text Box: September 2008 Text Box: Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   1  Labor Day Pack your favorite  picnic foods and books and enjoy reading and eating outdoors 2 Make a new student feel welcome at school. Draw a map of the school…be sure to mark where the library is. 3 Treaty of Paris signed in 1783. Why is this treaty significant? 4  FIND A book without words and write a story. Volunteer to read your story in class. 5       Design A book trading card for your favorite book. Share it with your librarian. 6 Make a list of ten things you did this summer. Which one was the most fun? Write in your journal and tell why. 7   National Grandparents’ Day Ask your grandparents what was their favorite book when they were your age. 8 International Literacy Day Volunteer to read to a class in your school today. 9 On Your      Mark! How many words can your read correctly in one minute? Keep a chart. 10   OPEN the dictionary and close your eyes. Point to a word on the page. What does it mean? Did you already know that word? 11 SELECT a new book to read in honor of Read a New Book Month. Write a review of the book and share it with your teacher-librarian. 12 13 Make a family trivia game. Ask your family members for interesting facts about your family that you can use as clues. 14 READ  the sports section and list the pro baseball teams. Which ones are ahead? 15  LOOK through a mail catalog and select 5 items you would like to have. How much would they cost? How much shipping would you have to pay? 16 LIST a famous person for every letter of the alphabet. 17 READ READ READ READ 18 First issue of the News York Times published, 1851. Read the Times today online. 19   20 WRITE in your journal about your favorite movie. Why did you pick this movie? 21 22  Make   applesauce ornaments for Apple Month. Take one to your teacher and your librarian. Here’s a recipe you can use. 23 Cereal         Boxes Read your box. Tell someone what you learned from reading it. 24  Books- Don’t be without them! Always have one or two in the car to read why your riding. 25 GO Outside and sit for 15 minutes. Make a list of everything you hear. Now write a poem using your list. 26 Book Swap Bring books to school to exchange with your classmates. 27  Walk through your neighborhood. What do you see that tells you summer is ending? 28  Read a newspaper article. Tell someone what you learned. 29 1st Pro base-ball game played in NY, 1890. What teams played and who won? 30 READ your book for 30 minutes today. Library Card Sign-Up Month Read a New Book Month Apple Month     Text Box: Read your book for 21 minutes every day this week! Text Box: Talk Like A Pirate Day! Read a book about pirates. Name some pirates from SC. Text Box: Read your book for 1200 seconds today!