Cold Day -- Monday Off

What to do with my day off due to the extreme cold......?

Research some lesson ideas for January

Enjoy a book made into a movie (The Hobbit)

Assemble some gift bags for the teachers (encourage them to visit and use the library)

Drop everything and read!

Catch up on reading & connect

Use the holiday season to catch up with your family and some good reads.  The Book Thief, The Hobbit, Divergent, and Catching Fire are recent movies in the theater, that are based on great books.  Read the book, discuss, see the movie, discuss!  Improve yourself with reading AND connect with your family and friends.....maybe even make some new friends (with similar tastes in books/movies) in the process!

Happy Holidays!

The snowmen have come to help us find some good books to get us through the cold winter!

Peacock Fanciness!

We read Limelight Larry by Leigh Hogkinson, then we were little show offs ourselves! The K5 students decorated their own peacock feather and Larry looked fabulous when we put them all together! 

New and ongoing bulletin board

Trying to drum up some reading excitement & encourage students to share what they love to read!

Library, month 3

We are having fun with authors and genres this month!

2nd grade is exploring the Fairy Tale genre and it's characteristics.  They really enjoyed The Three Ninja Pigs.  It was fun to compare this version to the original Three Little Pigs. We also had fun with writing our class fairy tale mad-lib.

1st grade is practicing their re-telling skills with the many versions of Lucille Colandro's "There Was an Old Lady" books.  We are also incorporating some art into our library time and creating our own little old bag ladies. Students can them re-tell the stories at home!

Kindergarten is reading books by author and illustrator Leigh Hodgkinson.  Her artwork is very engaging and her stories make the kids SMILE!  Check out our smiles!

October Fun!

I can't wait to try these fun spider glyphs with the kindergarten students.  We'll start by reading the two fun spider stories, then create and analyze the spider glyphs the next library class. I really want to display them (or at least take some pictures to post on the library web page), but not sure where I'll find room to hang close to 100 spiders!

 They turned out so very, very cute and the kindergarten students LOVED making them.  They also liked finding out who thought spiders were cool vs. creepy!