Fall 2025 Scholastic Book Fair: Backyard Birds + Birdwatching Basics
The week-long celebration of reading and learning incorporated a special focus on the feathered friends that visit our stretch of New Jersey. Noticing and supporting backyard birds are the first steps towards conservation. We trained our binoculars on local birds, learned how to support them, explored birdwatching tips and enjoyed art making .
Scholastic Book Fair 2024: Save the Seas !
Learn something new everyday. Remember to reduce, reuse and recycle.
5 tips for choosing books
Children who love to read tend to do better in school. Do let them have a choice! This fosters their love of reading and helps them to develop literacy preferences. You can help them make appropriate choices by asking these questions:
What do you enjoy reading? Do you enjoy books that are funny, scary, fiction or nonfiction? Do you like adventures or biographies?
Does the book cover make you want to know more? Flip through the book to gauge the interest.
Does the topic interest you?
Is the book part of a series?
Are there fewer than five unknown words in the book? If so, it will be suitable for their reading ability.
