OBOB Competitions Begin Jan 28th!  

Check the calendar below for details about your grade level.

 

3^rd grade

 1/21 11:30 – 11:45 – Last practice session – All 3rd grade  Teams

Thursday 1/28  11:30-12:30 First Round of Competition  All 3rd grade teams

Thursday 2/4  11:30-12:00 3^rd grade finals

2^nd grade –

Tuesday Jan 19^th – 10:30-10:50 practice

Tuesday Jan 26^th 10:30-10:50 practice

Tuesday Feb 2 – First Round of Competition 2nd grade teams

10:30 Ruth vs Nicholson

10:45 Nicholson vs Sammons

11:00 Sammons vs Fast

11:15 Fast vs Ruth

Tuesday, Feb 9^th – 2^nd grade finals

                10:30-11:00 – top 2 teams from 2/2  compete

4th/5th grade Competition

Friday, February  5th 11:30- 12:00

Thank you all for a successful book fair!
Here are the statistics:

127 books given to students to support reading

over $400 in books donated to classrooms

$321 raised for the library

13 awesome volunteers that made it happen

22 hours of volunteer time

What a great book fair!

 

OPB filmed in the library at James John today, as part of Oregon Artbeat's piece  on author Beverly Cleary.  The film will likely air in April, in honor of Beverly Cleary's 100th Birthday.

Happy Birthday Beverly Cleary!

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3rd graders are learning about author Beverly Cleary.  She is an author who lived and wrote in Portland and many of the places she writes about we are finding on a Portland map.
Beverly Cleary characters

Congratulations to Oasis for figuring out that this is Margaret Peterson Haddix.  Check out her books FOUND,  the series that features Tachyon Travel. 

 

 Looking for an interestesting book?

Try one of these, and don't forget to check out the book ideas on the left side of the page!

Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year      Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Diamond Willow

Flora and Ulysses

How to Train Your Dragon 

The Lightning Thief 

  A Long Walk to Water

·      Mission Unstoppable by Dan Gutman: https://youtu.be/zIuipi0h5T4

·      Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle: https://youtu.be/0QSVA7SJAEs

·      No Talking by Andrew Clements: https://youtu.be/Y8NA-AM7eqU

·      Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell: https://youtu.be/ou85rDqQ4e0

·      The Sasquatch Escape by Suzanne Selfors: https://youtu.be/2aZ-NDnSKG8

·      The Shadows by Jacqueline West: https://youtu.be/N0ayT5Ly3Og

·      Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: https://youtu.be/GZqsRInLfzM

·      What Was Ellis Island? by Patricia Brennan Demuth: https://youtu.be/TMXN2qAvKs8

·      What Was the March on Washington? by Kathleen Krull: https://youtu.be/ZA9TJCV-tks

OBOB Teams!  

Thursday, Nov. 12th
Team Pictures and practice competition
3rd grade 11:35
4th and 5th grade 1:50

Guess which author I met this week? 

 Figure it out and tell Ms. Rolfe to win a prize!

Here's a hint:  Tachyon Travel

Coming Soon - James John Book Fair

Dec 7-10

Writers Unite!

Let your imagination roll AND you could win prizes as wel!

Try Story Starters, to write a wacky story.  Bring it in to Ms. Rolfe for the Wacky Story book.
http://thestorystarter.com/

Win a class visit from author Rick Riordon

 

 

How?  Write an original mythology story that explains how something came to be.  Must be less that 2 pages.  Turn it in to Ms. Rolfe by November 18th. 

Has a book changed the way you think about yourself or the world?

Write a letter to the author describing how you changed, and you could win a prize!

http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/youthsvcs/aboutlit.aspx

In Oregon winners receive $100 and advance to the national competition;

runners-up receive $50; honorable mentions receive$25 bookstore gift card, and semi-finalists receive $10 gift card. Turn into Ms. Rolfe to be mailed December 1st  or January 8th.

Did you read this summer? Don't forget to turn in your game board to the St. John's library.  We are ahead of Astor, Sitton and Holy Cross, but just barely!
Bring your Multomah County T-shirt to the school library and get your picture taken for our wall of fame!

Super Readers!

Join an OBOB team

REad a classic

Try something new

 

Inspiration to read:  Summer Reading in the Park

 Join the James John School Community as we read in the park
Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30
St. John's Park
Here's who's coming:
6/24 PTA and Ms. Ruth
7/1 PTA and Ms. Nicholson
7/8 PTA and Mary Klough

Booklists to keep you reading:
OBOB books

The Big, Bad, Book Giveaway

June 9th

Classes will come and each child will select 5-6 books to take home for the summer.   They are theirs to keep!

Thank you Children's Book Bank

Thanks for a great book fair!

We gave away 119 books to students.
PTA bought books for each classroom and the library and we had enough in profits to purchase $390 of books for classrooms and $242 in books for the library.
What a great school we have!

By Star Livingstone

Screen Free Week - May 4 - 11
Turn off your screen (video game, TV or movie) and do something else instead.  Play in the park, play a board game, read, bike, enjoy the sunshine!
You don't have to go Screen Free - you can go Less Screen Time and still make a difference.
Track your progress  on the sheets coming home this week.
Prizes from Ms. Rolfe



Stop the Pop - May 1- 31
Can you go a month without pop?  Track your progress on the sheets coming home this week.
Prizes from Nurse Bill at the end of the month.


Here Every Day for the Month of May
Celebrations for attendance are at the end of the month.

Book ideas

By Levine

We know about Ruby Bridges, but did you know that the next year they closed the high school?  Read about what life was like for a family who had to send their daughter to another town for her high school education.

 

First impressions of the new library!

 

OBOB Regional Championships

OBOB Regional Championships 
March 14, 2015

Before the Competition

 

After the Competition

James John was represented by Harry, Lindsay, Marrisa, O'Lisia and Pierre

The Iditarod Begins

4th grade ranked the mushers.  We used their experience with dogs, their experience with the Iditarod and their experience with other races to decide how they would finish.  Their predictions are:
Paul Gebhardt
Lance Mackey
Allie Zirkle
Alan Ershens
Jodi Bailey
Jason Compeau

Find out how they are doing

Read about sled dogging in our library
     

Togo
	Call #: [E] Blake, Robert J.

Iditarod dream : Dusty and his sled dogs compete in Alaska's Jr. Iditarod
	Call #: 798 WOO Wood, Ted, 1965-

Douggie : the playful pup who became a sled dog hero
	Call #: 636.7 FLO Flowers, Pam.

Sled dog : powerful miracle
	Call #: 636.73 PER Person, Stephen.
	Series: Built for cold: arctic animals

Battle of the Books

Thanks Astor for a great competition!

James John OBOB team at Astor

Next up
March 14th
OBOB State Regional Championship