January was FUN in the @ElsaEngRRISD Library! More @MackinVIA, a @TBABooks Voting Party w/ 285 readers, & lots of reading! #LibrariesRRock 📚 pic.twitter.com/DkAxLXcuFS
— Emily Kupersztoch (@mrsklibrarian) February 6, 2017
285 excited 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade students voted for their favorite 2016-17 Texas Bluebonnet Award Book in the England Library today! We can’t wait to find out the winner! #LibrariesRRock
285 excited students voted for their favorite @TBABooks at @ElsaEngRRISD! Can’t wait to find out the winner! #LibrariesRRock @RoundRockISD pic.twitter.com/B81IN2qVCJ
— Emily Kupersztoch (@mrsklibrarian) January 27, 2017
23 dedicated students read ALL 20 Bluebonnet books and were poised to battle it out in our Campus Battle of the Bluebonnets on February 23, 2016! Students used the Quizziz app on our NextGen iPads to demonstrate their deep knowledge of the 20 Bluebonnet books.
Once our team was selected, it was time to PREPARE for BATTLE!
This year’s battle was being sponsored by the Round Rock Express and would be held at the Dell Diamond!
Our team won THIRD PLACE out of THIRTY schools participating!!!!! We are so proud of our England Leopard Battle Team!
The 4th Annual England Library Bluebonnet Breakfast took place on Friday, February 12th.
78 students celebrated with a delicious breakfast in the library along with a fun game of Bluebonnet Bingo, prizes, and a LIVE video announcement of the winning Texas Bluebonnet Award book reveal!
At the end of January, we held our fourth annual Bluebonnet Voting Parties!! This year, so many students were eligible to vote that we had two HUGE voting parties in the cafeteria!
A record-breaking 232 students cast their vote on our iPads, hung out with their friends, made and ate a custom snack mix, enjoyed Bluebonnet-related games, and received an “I Voted” sticker and a bookmark. It was SO MUCH FUN!!!!
MUCH kudos to our students for their achievements in our Texas Bluebonnet Award Reading Program this year! Whew, WHAT a year! We broke every participation record in our school’s history — wow!!!
The stats below may just look like a list of numbers, BUT they represent the dedication of our students and encouragement & support from their amazing teachers to accomplish so much reading SUCCESS!!!!!!!
2,355 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List books read!
349 students participating in the reading program, reading at least 1 book!
232 students reading FIVE or more books, are eligible to vote in the state-wide election, and are attending our Bluebonnet Voting Party!
78 students qualifying for the Bluebonnet Breakfast!
31 third graders reading 10 books
20 fourth graders reading 12 books
27 fifth graders reading 14 books
22 students reading ALL 20 books, qualifying for our CAMPUS Battle of the Bluebonnets, and an opportunity to represent England in our DISTRICT Battle of the Bluebonnets!
4 third graders
5 fourth graders
13 fifth graders
WOW!!! Look for photos of all of these FUN Bluebonnet events in the coming weeks!!
130,997 students across the entire state of Texas voted, including:
AND… the book winning the state-wide Texas Bluebonnet Award for 2015 is……(watch the video!)…..(make sure your volume is on!)……
Here at England Elementary, our voting totals were as follows:
and the winner at England Elementary, with 39 votes, is Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin!
At our school, 133 students voted, including:
THANK YOU to all of the students who participated in the Bluebonnet Program and to all of the teachers and parents who supported our awesome readers!!!!
At the end of January, we held our third annual Bluebonnet Voting Parties!! This year, so many students were eligible to vote that we had to have THREE voting parties in order to fit everyone in the library!
We had 135 students who qualified to vote for their favorite Bluebonnet book — these 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students read 5 or more Bluebonnet Books from the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List:
Some other fun facts about this year’s Bluebonnet Program:
The Bluebonnet Breakfast will take place this Friday! We have a record-breaking 43 students qualified to attend the Bluebonnet Breakfast, for those who read 10+ books in 3rd grade, 12+ books in 4th grade, and 14+ books in 5th grade!!! WOW!!
Finally, we have 14 students qualified to attend our Campus Battle of the Bluebonnets, for those who read all 20 books. This year’s participants are: Alizeh, Neha, Saanvi, Paridhi, Suhani, Ashley, Changbin, Hailey, Jennifer, Sasank, Aditya, Akshay, Evan and Krisha! Way to go, Bluebonnet Rockstars!
I am SO proud of all of our Bluebonnet Program Participants from this year! Reading the Bluebonnet Books expands your reading horizons and I know our students discovered new authors and genres and enjoyed participating in our fun program!
Our 3-5th graders were SO EXCITED to meet Bluebonnet Author Liesl Shurtliff during her visit to Round Rock! Every class had read her nominated book, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin over the past semester, so Ms. Shurtliff’s visit was highly anticipated. It is always a special event when an author visits our school, but this visit in particular was extra special since Rump is nominated on this year’s Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List and is being read by students across Texas this year!
Her interactive presentation engaged our students and they enjoyed participating in a Readers Theater with Ms. Shurtliff. We can’t wait for Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk to be published in April!
Thank you to our wonderful PTA for financing Ms. Shurtliff’s visit for our students!
