The Day the Crayons Quit

We recently read a very funny book, The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt.

http://www.penguin.com/book/the-day-the-crayons-quit-by-drew-daywalt/9780399255373

September 30th was designated Support the Crayons Day. The crayons are tired of being overworked and over-used, and are finally speaking up. Each crayon writes a letter to Duncan, the owner of the crayons, encouraging, pleading or cajoling him to consider using them to color different objects than they usually do.

This hilarious book happens to be one of the 10 nominees on this year's Red Clover Award list, Vermont's children's choice book award. Click here to see the other nominees for this year.

The book ends with a wonderful mural by Duncan who manages to make all his crayons happy:

This inspired us to have our K, 1st and 2nd graders work on creating their own murals.

Here are the completed murals being hung in the cafeteria for all to see and enjoy!

Kindergarten Mural Based on Drew Daywalt's book The Day the Crayons Quit
Kindergarten Mural based on the book The Day the Crayons Quit from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.



1st Grade Mural part 1 from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.



1st Grade Mural part 2 from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.


2nd Grade Mural Based on Drew Daywalt's book The Day the Crayons Quit
2nd Grade Mural based on The Day the Crayons Quit from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.





2nd Grade Mural Part 2 based on the book The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.

Red Clover News

The World's Greatest Lion wins the 2014 Red Clover Award, Vermont's children's choice picture book award. The voting results shown below reveal it is a favorite with all grade levels at EES, and a favorite with children grades K through 4 across the state of Vermont.

Red Clover Award Comes Alive!

In early November the staff at EES performed dramatic representations of the 10 picture books that have been nominated for the next Red Clover Award.  The children were treated to mini skits for each book, much like a movie trailer - just enough information to pique their interest without giving away the ending.  The Red Clover Award is a children's book award for the State of Vermont.  Children in kindergarten through grades 4 in Vermont vote for their favorite book, and the winning book is announced in April of each year. 

The Red Clover Award promotes the reading and discussion of the best of contemporary picture books in nearly all of Vermont's elementary schools. Each year over 20,000 K-4 students read, or have read to them, the ten nominated books.  The Red Clover Award is co-sponsored by the Vermont Center for the Book / Mother Goose Programs and the Vermont Departments of Education and Libraries. Click here to visit their website for more information and the history of the program.

Mrs. Scrimgeour and Mrs. Doble introduce the book All the Water in the World.

All the Water in the World

Neville

Neville

Balloons Over Broadway

Balloons Over Broadway

The Princess and the Pig

The Princess and the Pig

Me...Jane

Me ... Jane

Blackout

Swirl By Swirl

Grandpa Green

Three By the Sea

We will be reading these 10 books over the next few months in preparation for the voting in April.  So far, the children have heard Balloons Over Broadway (a true story about Tony Sarg), Three By the Sea, and Me...Jane (a true story about Jane Goodall) read aloud in the Learning Center.