A Visit From Brownie

A couple weeks ago we had another visit from our therapy dog!  We love Brownie and everything she adds to our library time.  The students were all very excited to get a chance to read with her. Here are a few pictures. The students have already been asking when she gets to come back.

Folktales

In our Trillium through Clarkia library classes we are preparing for our all school field trip to the "Shrek" musical.  It's been very exciting.  We have pretended we are sitting around a campfire surrounded by trees, stars, friends and families, and NO technology.  How would we entertain ourselves?  What would we do to save memories with little writing technology?  One of our Trillium students suggested we needed s'mores and were shocked to learn marshmallows weren't invented yet.  All the classes realized that storytelling would be a powerful way to spread memories and be entertained by.  We discussed the inventions of folktales and read one of our favorite fairytales.  We learned that fairy tales have certain characters:  royalty and animals,  specific settings: castles and forests, a common conflict:  good vs. evil, and a common resolution:  good overcoming evil with a happy ever after.
 

A Monster Of A Book Fair!

We made our $3,000 goal in sales!  Way to go MRA!   We will have close to $1000 to spend on new books for our library.  Please send me your ideas of new titles you would like to see.  Thank you so much for all your support.  Jayla Slinger was our award winner of our $100 gift certificate.  Thank you to the MRA Boosters for making this happen.


In our Trillium through Clarkia library classes, we have continued to identify fiction and nonfiction literature.  Ask your Clarkia students about the Dewey Rap.  I think most of them can rap it from memory.

In our Alder classes we have been working in Google Draw and are creating thank you cards for our amazing volunteers during our Roots Day.

In our Cedar classes we have been researching strategically and learning how boolean operators work.  

Over Half Way There

Please remember to stop by our book fair Monday, November 2nd and Tuesday, November 3rd!  We are little over half way in reaching our goal.  Remember you can order online!  Thank you for checking it out!

Why Our Book Fair Is Important To Our Library?

This week we will be hosting our book fair in the Wildwoods Gym.  The book fair will be open every day before and after school and during parent/teacher conferences.   This is a great way to get a jump on Christmas shopping and a great way to introduce some new books to your child's home library.  We also have teacher wish book baskets set up for you to see what books your child's teacher would love to add to their classroom library.  Please check them out and think about donating to their class.  

This fair is so important to our school library because it is our main fundraiser for our Mountain Meadow Media Center!  We are short on many non-fiction titles and young adult fiction books.  If we meet our goal of $3000 we can receive 25% of the total in cash to buy our much needed books.  

If you can't make it to the fair, you can always click on the following link and order online.  The orders will be shipped to our school and given to your student.  If it is a gift we can keep them for you until you have time to pick them up.  

See you at the fair!  Thank you so much for your support!

Digital Citizen Experts

Our final Digital Citizenship Posters are on our Media Center Walls.  The Alders and Cedars evaluated each other's work and learned the importance of all our digital citizenship rules.  

Thank you to all who came out to our parent night.  It is so important that we help our children navigate the wide world of the internet.  To the right of this post, I have included three links that are great resources for parents to use when having conversations with your child about their time on the internet.  I believe it's a very important issue that often gets ignored because we simply don't know where to begin.  We are charting new waters as we try to parent in the cyber domain.  There are great videos, a digital glossary,  real life testimonials, and a list of age appropriate apps.  

Wrapping Up...

We are wrapping up our digital citizenship projects this week.  The Alders and Cedars have come up with inspiring ways to stay safe on the internet.  I have been pleased to see how well they are working as a team to organize their thoughts and ideas.    The creativity of coming up with their own slogans and logos has been fun to watch.  Please be watching for their posters going up along our media center's walls.  

The Clarkia are well on their way in becoming accurate typist.  This week they took their first "timed" test.  We stressed the importance of accuracy and proper form.  I told the Clarkia that I was not interested in their speed at this time, that will come with increased practice.  We are focusing on accuracy and proper finger placement.  

In our Trillium library class we are discovering the fiction and nonfiction genre.  They are sorting notecards that have snippets of either a fiction or nonfiction story into the right genre.  We will continue to practice this throughout the year.

In our Huckleberry and Clarkia library classes we are learning the importance of the parts of a book.  Ask your student if they can find the copyright date or "birthdate".  They were very thorough in pointing out how old their books were to me.  The Clarkia are competing to beat their time in naming all the parts of a book in a round robin naming game.

Please help your student to remember to bring back their library books!  You should be getting an email reminder if their books are overdue.  I will also be printing out paper reminder slips to come home as well.

Don't forget to sign up to help out at our upcoming Scholastic Book Fair!