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Battle Of The Books 4
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Battle Of The Books #4

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 The Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award was established by the Arkansas Elementary School Council in 1998 to encourage reading for students in Grades K-3.  The name of the award was chosen because Arkansas is the only diamond producing state.  The Arkansas Diamond Award is selected by an annual vote. We will be reading two books per week over the next few weeks.   After reading the two selections each week, you will use the online form provided below to vote for your favorite story.    The winner will be determined  each week and after all of the selections have been presented, we will VOTE FOR OUR FAVORITE of all of the winners.

Click the link below the book covers and listen carefully to each story.  You have an important job right now and that is to choose which book you like the best.    Don’t forget to vote below when you finish both!

Creepy Pair Of Underwear!

By:  Aaron Reynolds

     Jasper Rabbit is NOT a little bunny anymore. He’s not afraid of the dark, and he’s definitely not afraid of something as silly as underwear. But when the lights go out, suddenly his new big rabbit underwear glows in the dark. A ghoulish, greenish glow. If Jasper didn’t know any better he’d say his undies were a little, well, creepy. Jasper’s not scared obviously, he’s just done with creepy underwear. But after trying everything to get rid of them, they keep coming back!

Click to view CREEPY PAIR OF UNDERWEAR

Please Please The Bees

By:  Gerald Kelley

     Benedict has a pretty sweet life for a bear. Every morning the bees leave a jar of honey on his doorstep, and every day he has honey for breakfast and honey in his tea. It's an important part of his day. But all that changes when the bees go on strike. Now it's up to Benedict to listen to the bees, and he realizes there's a lot more he could be doing to help them. So he fixes up the hive and learns to be a better beekeeper. Will the bees be pleased?

Click to view PLEASE PLEASE THE BEES

CLICK HERE TO PLACE YOUR VOTE

Choose one link in the green area below and explore what is inside.

National Geographic Explorer - Frog Parents and More

National Geographic Explorer -  Lots of Lemurs and More

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OPTIONAL RESOURCES TO EXPLORE

Below is a collection of resources that you may want to check out.   There are many great book sites and online reference/encyclopedia sites.  These are all optional but when time allows, explore what is available.   

ONLINE READING SITES

ABDO - A huge collection of digital content provided to us free from the Abdo Publishers through 5/31/20.  Thank you Abdo!

Sora - Collection of Fort Smith Public School District eBook collection available to read online.
           
 CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON LOGGING IN TO SORA FROM HOME

Tumble Books - Great collection of online books with audio and without audio format.   Provided free by the Fort Smith Public Library.

Junior Library Guild Digital - Online books available for free through this year.
                                                       
ELEMENTARY:   Username: JLGELM          Password: JLGFREE 

                                                        MIDDLE SCHOOL:   Username: JLGMID           Password: JLGFREE

Capstone  - Interactive books provided by the Fort Smith Public School District.

Free Ebooks From Mim's Publishing -  To support families during the COVID-19 outbreak, all of our ebooks and audiobooks are free. We guarantee that you'll be able to open these on the device of your choice.

Sebco Books is offering free services until June 30, 2020 - 450 multiuser ebooks, ranging from PreK-Adult
                     
      Username: keepreading      Password: sebco        Student ID#: 1 

WorldBook eBooks - This is a service that is provided by the State of Arkansas to every Arkansas citizen free of charge.

Storyline Online  - Listen to a book read to you by a famous person.   This service is always free.

TIMES RECORD e-EDITION  -  Our local Newspapers In Education program provides the digital version of the newspaper to Ballman Elementary daily.

Scholastic Learn At Home - Day by day projects for kids

Online Reference / Encyclopedias

ALL WORLDBOOK LINKS REQUIRE LOCATION SERVICES TO BE ALLOWED TO VERIFY THAT YOU ARE LOCATED WITHIN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
WorldBook Early World Of Learning - An online resource for preschoolers & children in early elementary that includes three interactive learning environments:

  1. Trek's Travels offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach critical early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, and more.
  2. Welcome to Reading provides leveled readers to develop and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness and comprehension skills. The Lexile for Reading ensures that early readers use text at their level.
  3. Know It offers a visually rich first encyclopedia that will captivate early learners with non-fiction topics of interest and importance to them.

WorldBook Kids  - General reference tool for young students with easy-to-read articles, thousands of illustrations, videos, comparison tools, and a wealth of engaging games and activities, including an atlas, interactive maps, flags, and over 200 game and activities.

WorldBook Student - A research tool tailored for students in elementary & middle schools with over 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, 10,000 biographies, multimedia, videos, animations and student activities.

WorldBook Hispanic  -  The WorldBook Student Edition provided in Spanish Language.

Britannica School -  A research tool tailored for students in elementary.

 Away from school, a username/password will be needed:  Username: fspsballman   Password: learn