NO School Monday May 27th- Memorial Day

Family Fun Night THANK YOU

Thank you to all of the MJF families who attended the Family Fun Night Carnival on May 17th!
We were delighted that so many families came out to spend time together and to support the fundraising efforts of the PTO. All of the proceeds from the event will be used to help MJF teachers purchase supplies for their classrooms and to pay for field trips for our students. Special thanks to the many MJF parents and to the staff of the Newman YMCA who helped plan and organize the event! We are especially appreciative to three local companies, Scott Volkswagen, Wannamoisett Country Club, and the RI Blood Center, for their sponsorship of the event and to Homestead Bakery and Thomsen Food Services for food donations for the event.
Thank you Deb Hobday and Christine Jackson for organizing such a wonderful event!

New PTO Newsletter Editor

The MJF PTO would like to thank Melissa Stock for taking on the role as the new newsletter editor.  We would also like to send out a very special thank you to both Jeff and Sonda Pimental for all of their hard work on previous newsletters as without them, there would not have been a newsletter.  Melissa’s email is Melissa062574@yahloo.com and the deadline for newsletter submissions is the second Wednesday of each month.   Thanks again!

Tumblebooks- Electronic Books

A 21st Century Library….in the cloud!

Myron J. Francis students, families, and teachers now have access to the online Tumblebook Library for students in grades K-3 and the Tumblebook Cloud Jr. for students in grades 4-6. See below for a complete description.

Click on the link http://www.epschoolsri.com/francis/?p=24

The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, Tumble Puzzles & Games, and TumbleResources for teachers and students.

TumbleBookCloud Junior is our collection of early reader chapter books, children’s classics, graphic novels, children’s audio books and new National Geographic videos – many of which are paired with our e-books – a perfect complement to support Common Core Curriculum!

The Tumblebooks login info for K-3 is

username: mjfrancis  password: books

The Tumblebooks Cloud Jr login info  for grades 4-6

username: mjfrancis password: login

Visit Storia through Scholastic.com

Even though the Book Fair is over you can still visit the Scholastic Store website and find out about Storia:

Currently, Storia is available for:

  • Windows PC [Windows®7, Vista®, and XP Service Pack 3]
  • iPad®
  • Android™ Tablet

You can receive 5 free eBooks with download.

Please visit:

http://store.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/LandingPageView?storeId=10052&catalogId=10051&jspStoreDir=SSOStore&pageName=storia/about