Library Update - May 2

Kindergarten: We're continuing to work with circle stories.  This week we focused on If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff and What to do if an Elephant Stands on your Foot by Michelle Robinson.  The students worked on retelling using the Mimio for both books.

First Grade: We're now finished with poetry!  We created In ____ poems.  There were some great ones like In my backpack, In my room, In Iowa City, and many more!

Second Grade: We worked with the book Water Dance by Thomas Locker.  It's a book of riddles on the topic of the water cycle.  We guessed the riddles then tried to put the story back together in small groups.  It was a fun tie-in to our weather unit.

Third Grade: Owen & Mzee was our focus during library.  We read the remarkable story between these two and had a chance to visit the website telling us more about them.

Fourth Grade:  We started creating Spine Poems using books from the library.  They are great and will soon be available online for viewing.

Fifth Grade: We finished our "Where I'm From" poems and some students shared theirs online!  Take a look!

Sixth Grade: We're starting a mini-unit studying Lewis Carroll.  This week we read The Crocodile.  Students were given a chance to memorize the poem in a short amount of time.  We also discussed that it is a parody poem and compared the original (Against Idleness and Mischief by Isaac Watts) to the Carroll version.  We will spend a little more time on this.