Welcome to the inaugural One Book, One
School at Highlands Elementary School!
This year, our School, Family and Community Partnership (SFCP) is launching a new initiative at
Highlands. The “One Book, One School” program encourages all students and families to participate in a
community exploration of a book. On Friday, January 15th,students learned that the book we will be
reading in every household is The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. It is a great story of sibling
rivalry, economic competition, and discovery of what’s most important in life. Thanks to SFCP, each
student and staff member at Highlands will receive a copy of The Lemonade War. We had an excellent
assembly thanks to Bike Bald, who we are partnering with for our fundraiser. We are asking families to
read along with us and take the opportunity to form book clubs at home! To assist you with this, we have
comprehension questions, as well as audio files of each chapter.
On this page you will find information about the event at Highlands, along with a schedule of events, links
to interesting information, and the audio files of the book. This site will update weekly, so check back
often! Thanks for being part of a great community of learners!
This week (Jan. 22nd-28th) we are reading chapters 4, 5, and 6! We’ll
also be collecting nickels for our charity drive!
Click on the book to find out more about the author and the series!
Here is our reading schedule:
Week 1: (January 15th-21st): Chapters 1-3 (Penny War Week)
Week 2: (January 22nd-28th): Chapters 4-6 (Nickel War Week)
Week 3 (January 29th- February 4th) Chapters 7-9 (Dime War Week)
Week 4 (February 5th –February 15th) Chapters 10-end (Quarter War Week)
Spirit Days!
Lemonade War Spirit Days-- Wednesdays
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January 20th- Lemon Day (wear your yellow clothes)
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January 27th- Beach day (wear hats, sunglasses, tropical shirts and clothing)
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February 3rd- Teamwork day (wear your favorite sport team clothing)
February 10th- Highlands Spirit Day
Ozzie's Reading Program:
This year, we are also teaming up with our Ozzie reading program. This incentive-based reading
program encourages students to read over a month. Full participation gets that student a free ticket to a
Kane County Cougars minor-league baseball game. This year, students who participate in the Ozzie
program will also be entered into another grand prize-- a chance to ride on the Bike Bald fire truck,
Neptune! More information will be coming home with your student about the Ozzie program. We will also
have prizes for the grade levels that have the highest percentage of Ozzie Slips turned in!
Our Fundraiser:
Since it's a little cold to have our own lemonade stand competition, we'll be having a friendly competition
between the grade levels by having a modified Penny War. Each week, students can choose to bring in
the "Coin of the Week." We'll have jars set up in each room. Each week, we will only count the coins that
are "Coin of the Week" and will collect those coins on Friday. We'll announce the winning grade the
following Tuesday...and there will be prizes for the overall grade at the end, including a lemonade party
and extra recess. If you send in other coins, they'll be kept until that week comes up.
Our fundraiser will benefit the local charity Bike Bald. From their website:
"Bike Bald's Group Mission:
Provide cycling rides & events for the general public supporting community, healthy living & sustainability
while supporting Childhood Cancer Awareness. We work hard to provide the emotional support to the
children and their family that has had to face life changes due to cancer or other life changing illnesses.
We do so in a “grassroots” way, by going back to the support basics of the family & community. We know
that heartache when a parent(s) are told that their child has been diagnosed with serious life-threatening
diseases the whole family is affected. Through grassroots direction we want to meet the needs of
parent(s), child, sibling, by providing the emotionally, spiritually, financially and social needs.
Bike Bald is a registered 501c3 organization."
You can read more about them by clicking on the picture below:
(Links to an external site.)
Questions for Chapters 4,5, and 6.
Getting ready to read questions:
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Have you ever had a bet with a brother, sister, or friend? What was it? Did you win or lose?
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How do you feel when you fight with a brother, sister, or friend? How do you think your parents
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feel when you fight?
Why do people compete with one another?
Chapter 4 Discussion:
1. Jessie did not understand why Evan was mad at her. Describe Evan’s side of the story. Describe
Jessie’s side of the story.
2. How did Jessie ask Megan to play?
3. What are some character traits you would use to describe Jessie?
4. Why were more people going to Jessie’s lemonade stand than Evan’s stand?
5. Why did Jessie use pictures to explain how much money they would make?
Chapter 5 Discussion:
1. Why is Evan mad that Jessie became friends with Megan?
2. Why does Evan feel like Jesse is racing him to get the dishes done?
3. What does Jessie plan to spend her lemonade money on?
4. What was the “spit-vow?”
5. Why does Evan and Jessie’s mom feel sad when they argue?
6. What is the bet?
7. When will they determine who wins the bet?
Chapter 6 Discussion:
1. Jessie said girls communicate in different ways. What does she mean by that?
2. Do you think girls communicate differently than boys? Why or why not?
3. Jessie brought up the term, value added. Based on page 77, what does valued added mean?
4. What did she do to add value to her lemonade stand?
5. Evan used the idea of Goodwill? Based on page 85, what does Goodwill mean?
6. How did he earn so much money?
7. Who made the most sells that day?
8. Why did Jessie like Evan’s friend, Paul, the most?
9. What could help the kids sell lemonade?
Lemons and Lemonade Trivia: (Week 2)
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Alex Scott set up a lemonade stand at age 4 to raise money to find a cure for cancer, which she
was diagnosed with just before her first birthday. She raised $2,000 in just one day, and a
movement was born. Today, Alex’s Lemonade Stands have raised more than $80 million for
cancer research. Sadly, Alex passed away in 2004 at the age of 8.
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The “ade” in lemonade means that the product is not 100 percent juice
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In North America, certain European countries, and most Asian countries lemonade is usually
made from a basic recipe of lemon juice, water, and cane sugar or honey and is often homemade.
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Lemonade etc. can also be carbonated, either by a bottler or by a consumer adding carbonated
water or lemon-lime soda to a product.
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In the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and some other English-speaking countries, lemonade
is a commercially produced, lemon-flavored, carbonated, sweetened soft drink (similar to lemonlime sodas in North America without the lime). Think Sprite and 7-Up. In these places the
American-style drink is often called "traditional lemonade" or "homemade lemonade". Carbonated
versions of this are also sold commercially as "cloudy" or "traditional" lemonade. There are also
similar uncarbonated products, lemon squash and lemon barley water, both of which are usually
sold as a syrup which is diluted to taste.
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In France, “citronade” is used to refer to American-style lemonade. “Limonade” refers to
carbonated, lemon-flavoured, clear soft drinks.
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Pink lemonade was traditionally colored with grenadine, but now is often made pink with the
addition of raspberry, strawberry, cranberry, grape and/or other berries in some combination or
food dye.
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The New York Times credited Henry E. "Sanchez" Allott as the inventor of pink lemonade in his
obituary, saying he had dropped in red cinnamon candies by mistake.[8] Another theory, recorded
by historian Joe Nickell in his book Secrets of the Sideshows, is that Pete Conklin first invented
the drink in 1857 when he used water dyed pink from a horse rider's red tights to make his
lemonade.[9]
(Links to an external site.)
Fun Facts about the Nickel!
On the front of the nickel you will find a picture of Thomas Jefferson. This picture was designed from a
portrait of the late President completed in 1800 and shows Jefferson as he looked at 57 years old when
he was Vice President of the United States. You will also find the word “Liberty” written on the nickel,
which was designed after President Jefferson’s own handwriting. Thomas Jefferson was the third
president of the United States and was in office from 1801-1809. He wrote the Declaration of
Independence and was one of the most important founding fathers of the United States.
On the back of the nickel is a picture of Jefferson’s Monticello, which was the home of the late president.
It is located near Charlottesville, Virginia and was designed by Thomas Jefferson himself. It is historical
landmark which receives many visitors every year.
New nickels were in production at the U.S. mint in 2004 and 2005 (in 2006 the orignal design was
restored). These new nickels celebrate the bicentennials of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and
Clark expedition.
Sources:
http://www.busybeekidscrafts.com/Pennies-Nickels-Dimes-and-Quarters.html
Nickel - By United States Mint - http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?flash=no&action=photo#Pres, Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31105281
Sources:
“The History of Lemonade” on EverythingLemon.com; “Lemonade Fun Facts (Links to an external site.)” on Mobilecuisine.com (Links to an external site.);
Cool Facts about Lemons on Sunskist.com
: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5039147_history-lemonade-stands.html (Links to an external site.)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5039147_history-lemonade-stands.html (Links to an external
site.)
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/food/lemons.html (Links to an external site.)
http://www.stumblerz.com/interesting-facts-about-lemon/ (Links to an external site.)