Mrs. Shirey’s sixth and seventh-grade Strategic Reading classes have been building their reading and analysis skills while learning about President Lincoln’s assassination. Eighth-grade students have been learning about the ways archaeologists uncover new understandings about our own and long-lost worlds. There has already been so much growth this year! Since developing a love of reading is so valuable in itself, we regularly devote class time to reading, writing about, and discussing choice books. We are thankful for so many good books in our library and classrooms!