QR Codes for Book Trailers

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Okay kiddos even though we can’t use cell phones at school. It’s still important to be exposed to new technology. QR Codes, which stands for Quick Response, isn’t really a new technology because they have been used in Japan for years, but they are fairly new in the United States. So if you have a smart phone you can get the free app for NeoReader which reads the code (the black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background) on the spine of these books. It will take you quickly to a book trailer. Pretty cool, right?

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Texas Bluebonnet Results 2011

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The results are in, and for the 6th year in a row the Centeno Bucks have voted for and picked the winner!

 
TBA 2011 Winner

The Uglified Ducky written and performed by Willy Claflin and illustrated by James Stimson was the overwhelming winner.

You “demember” the story of “The Ugly Duckling” don’t you? Well, chances are you don’t “demember” it like this.

A baby moose loses his way and ends up in a nest with a “fambly” of baby ducks. In this “fambly” he can’t seem to do anything right. He can’t quack, waddle, or swim, and mother duck thinks he’s a tad ugly. All ends well though, when he meets up with real moose. Of course all Mother Moose tales have a moral to the story, and this was is no different: If you don’t fit into your “fambly…that does not mean you are uglified…. It just means you have not found out what you really are yet.”

The majority of our kids found it great fun, but I thought it was touching that some kids said the story was sad. They empathized with the baby moose, the criticism he had to endure and his struggle to fit in.