Right before break, our school celebrated the end of a month long book contest with a book fair and prizes. Classes made big books and little books, wrote books and repaired books. While I was disappointed that most of the “books” created were just copies of published books, I did appreciate the effort to encourage reading and was impressed by the artwork.

A big book by the 8th grade

And little books by the 11th grade

Bolor-Erdene perusing a display.

A book "first aid" kit that included a stapler and a roll of tape.

The game de jour in my room these days is Life. While they can’t read what most of the squares say, and they always forget to buy a house, they have learned the important words “pay”, “collect”, and “lawsuit”. The kids just love “that game with the cars.”