What The New Year Will Bring In the Mountain Meadow...

Mountain Meadow Book Sale

We are always looking for ways to provide the best resources for our students.  Michelle Urton will be collecting donations (books can be dropped off in the office) and holding a book sale on Fridays.  Each book will be a dollar and the money

raised will go towards buying new titles for our library.  

OBOB 2017

Starting in January our OBOB team of readers will start battles for our school championships.  These battles will determine who will go to regionals.  Our 3-5th grade team will battle on March 18th at Boones Ferry Primary School (Wilsonville). The 6th-8th team’s location and dates are yet to be determined.

Usborne Book Fair

During the week of February 6th we will be hosting an Usborne and Kane Miller Book Fair in the Media Center.   

Usborne and Kane Miller books are the most exciting, engaging, and educational books on the market today. They are high quality, innovative, lavishly-illustrated and best of all they are the books kids love to read. Choose from almost 2000 bright colorful and fun titles covering a wide variety of
subjects.

E-Portfolio Work And Google Drive Apps

Our Cedar students will be working on their web designs for their portfolios.

Their websites will soon be up and running for all to see.  

Our Alders will continue to hone their technology skills in becoming savvy in using the different Google Apps for their ongoing projects.  

New Resources

 Don’t forget that you can check out our newest book titles by going to http://mralibrary.blogspot.com/ and clicking on our Alexandria Card Catalog.  Our Trillium through Clarkia would love your participation in helping them find “right fit” books.

Learning About Book Genres and Dewey Decimal System

Clarkia South

Week Full Of Learning

Trillium Learning:

What is an illustrator and what job do they have to make a book come alive?  This was the question we pondered this week.  We discovered the illustrator, Matthew Myers and a few of the books he has illustrated.
     

Huckleberry Learning:

We continued to discover how to unlock information through using text elements such as a Table of Contents, an Index, a Glossary, and photos.  We read a story written by a real astronaut, Chris Hadfield and how he overcame his fear of the dark to become a commander on the Internation Space Station.  This is an adorable book with great illustrations and a cute pug named Albert to interest every reader no matter your age.



Clarkia Learning:

They are quickly becoming experts on the Dewey Decimal System, thanks to the Melvil Dewey rap and our memory game.

Alder Learning:

The Alders have been studying how to make campaign materials and have been divided into different politcal parties to do research for different debate topics.  They have worked hard to be creative in their flyers, posters, bumper stickers, lawn signs, and advertisments.














Cedar Learning:

Cedars are becoming experts on web design and working hard on putting together their E-Portfolios.