Get Your Kids Signed Up For this Free Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge!

          The Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge™

 is a free online reading program for children.
Join today and let’s set a new reading world record for summer 2015! (May 4 - Sept 4, 2015)

Grand Prize: 

the schools with the most minutes read will win a visit from 
Michael Northrop (top elementary school), and Varian Johnson (top middle school).

What is the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge?

• Now in its 9th year, the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge is a free online/mobile reading program dedicated to stopping the “Summer Slide” by encouraging kids to read throughout the summer months when school is out.
• Starting May 4, 2015, kids can log their reading minutes (online and on smartphones) as they Read for the World Record, enter sweepstakes to win fabulous prizes, and earn digital rewards when they complete weekly reading challenges. (Pre-Registration for educators begins on April 6, 2015.)
• This year’s theme is "Power Up and Read," sponsored by ENERGIZER^®.
• 12 Scholastic authors will create our first-ever, collection of summer short stories that kids can “unlock” throughout the summer.
• In 2014, Scholastic inspired more than 275,000 kids from 4,600 schools in all 50 States and 29 countriesto set a new record for summer reading of 304,749,681 minutes!

So How Do You Participate?

Follow this link: Summer Reading Challenge

Kids! 

Read & log minutes all summer

Unlock stories & earn rewards

Help set a new reading 
world record!

GO!

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Everyday Bento by Wendy Thorpe Copley

Everyday Bento: 50 Cute and Yummy Lunches to Go 
by Wendy Thorpe Copley

 

A fun, colorful book full of step by step instructions on how to create a Bento Box.

What is a Bento you ask? 

ben·to

ˈbentō/

noun

1. a lacquered or decorated wooden Japanese lunchbox.

   • a Japanese-style packed lunch, consisting of such items as rice, vegetables, and sashimi (raw fish with condiments).

   
   

Bento's Box lunches are a fun way to add a little art and

imagination to your meal. They can be very simple as in a salad and sandwich or very detailed with characters and cutting different shapes. What do they look like? 

Everyday Bento shows detailed, colorful pictures of how to build your box.

It also gives you step by step instructions along with the recipe to make them.

At the beginning of the book, it gives you food ideas and also color ideas along with a list of tools that you can use to make your fun Bento Box! 

The actual Bento Box can be found in Asian  stores or online. You can also use the Rubbermaid or Glad containers you find in the grocery stores. 

Kids love these fun meals. It encourages them to  make them and to learn to eat healthy!

Oh and there is also a "grown up" section in the book to for grown up Bento ideas.

 They can be very detailed and cute! I found these on Pinterest.

So if you're just getting started or you're interested in learning more, I highly recommend Everyday Bento to get you started to making fun, cute meals! 

Wordless Wednesday

Can you imagine seeing this drive by?!! Incredible! LOL!!

My Book Cover- That was fun !

I was browsing other blogs and came across Layers of Thought . CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER . Heres mine, not as good as Shellies!

Here are the directions if you want to try it. Leave a link , i'd love to look at it!

1 – Go to “Fake Name Generator” or click http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

The name that appears is your author name.

2 – Go to “Random Word Generator” or click http://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml

The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.

3 – Go to “FlickrCC” or click http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php

Type your title into the search box. The first photo that contains a person is your cover.

4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. Be sure to crop and/or zoom in.

5 – Post it to your site along with this text.

Have fun!