School+Is+Cool

=School Is Cool= Aimed at a grade three-five level, this storytime extols the pleasures of attending elementary school.

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[|"It's Inside My Sister's Lunch", If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand (Dakos)] - All the students forget their book money. In the end, Tim remembers that his money is in his sock. The teacher passes out from the shock. [|"Why The Frog In Our Class Is Purple", Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems (Dakos)] - From a collection of humourous and thoughtful poems recounting the school year in Ms. Roys' fourth-grade class. The absurdity of the poem ("We were painting / A mural today, / The frog got loose, / What else can I say?") will delight students. [|Jared Lester, Fifth-Grade Jester (Kyi)] - Jared Lester wants to be jester! The problem is there is no real call for jesters in contemporary times until he hears that one student from his school will get to perform for visiting royalty. [|The Mystery of The Graffiti Ghoul (Chan) -] When graffiti is discovered on school property, Marty's friend, Remi, is blamed. Forced to team up with his nemesis, Trina, Marty uses skills and ingenuity to find the real culprits, clear Remi's name, and win back the trust of his only friend. [|Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Kinney) -] Middle school student Greg Heffley is forced by his mother to keep a diary, and in it he loosely recounts each day's events, interspersed with his comic illustrations. For older readers. [|The Talented Clementine (Frazee)]- In her second adventure, Clementine is the only untalented student in her third-grade class, with the talent show fast approaching. [|Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger (Sachar) -] Chapter Three, //Poetry//, is a great read-aloud. Mrs. Jewls asks her students to pick a colour and write a poem about it. After much fretting by the students, the chapter ends with their finished poems

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[|Sideways Stories From Wayside School (Sachar) -] Developed by Aaron Shepard, the script calls fro nine readers (Mrs. Jewls, Joe, Bebe, Calvin, Louis, and four narrators). The three stories are based on the following chapters:
 * Joe - Mrs. Jewls tries to teach Joe how to count the "correct" way
 * Bebe - She thinks that quantity is more important than quality when it comes to art
 * Calvin - He is told to deliver a note to an imaginary teacher



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