Monday, October 8, 2012

Library Update

Kindergarten:  We moved up to checking out from the shelves!  We are trying to earn The Shelf Elf Award by using quiet feet, quiet voices, a shelf marker, and putting books back the right way.  Each student brought home a sheet where we colored the books that were the correct way.  We're also reminding students that they can choose books to read the words, read the pictures, or retell a story.  At the start of each class time, we share the book we recently returned to show we're reading at home!

First Grade: As we continue with our fractured fairy tales unit we read Jack and the Beanstalk and Kate and the Beanstalk.  We compared and contrasted the two.  This correlates with text-to-text connections which are being taught in the classroom..

Second Grade:  Text features are still our focus.  We're looking at which features are seen most  often and what they do to help us in reading.

Third Grade: We are continuing with Gmail this week.  Our focus is on sending nice emails, email etiquette  and just practicing accessing our account.

Fourth Grade: This week we are continuing to work with technology and our biography reports.  We worked with Google Drive (the new GoogleDocs) and created folders for our Wax Museum project.

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 cyberbulling.  If you have a 5th or 6th grade student, ask him or her about an upstander, and what that person does in a bullying situation.

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