Library Update

Kindergarten: Each class has earned The Shelf Elf Award by using quiet feet, quiet voices, a shelf marker, and putting books back the right way!  We're having a few problems finding safe places for our books and many are coming back damaged.  Please review this with your Kindergarten student so the library books are available for all students.  As Kindergarteners we have started looking at Halloween books and focusing on the different ways we can read stories.  We can read the words, read the pictures, retell the story, or read with someone!

First Grade: We continue looking for text-to-text connections as well as mapping out a story.  This week we read Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini.  It's a great story with a character we will see again next cycle.

Second Grade:  As we continue our work with nonfiction we started working on notetaking.  This cycle we read What is Halloween by Elaine Landau and took notes as a large group.  Next week we will read a book on pumpkins and take our own notes!

Third Grade: 3S worked on summarizing, 3R finished email etiquette and 3M didn't have a lesson this week due to Museum School.  These students are all battling hard for the Genre Challenge this month! 

Fourth Grade: We used Animoto to create a short video about their Wax Museum person.  The students really enjoy working with this program and are very excited for their Wax Museum presentation next week.

Fifth & Sixth Grade: As we continue to work on Digital Citizenship we continued working with an online program through CommonSense Media.  This week our focus was giving creative credit.  We need to remember that someone created each picture, song, or media we see online and we need to respect their work and their right to make a living.  Some classes used their library time to catch up on the past three lessons also.