Week of May 11th

Spring Fever has hit...

It's that time of year: when library books go missing and students begin to long for the Summer days filled with travel, playing outside and no school!!

As we gear up for the Summer, we librarians ask, plead and URGE kids to read read and READ!!  In just a few weeks, we will have our all important due date for Books - Monday, June 1st!  The week prior will be the last week to check out books, so parents and family members...here's where you step in!  Visit your local library to sign your kiddo up for the Summer Reading Program.  In our school, we are fortunate to have the ability to host a local librarian (stay tuned for this date in mid-June), in which he/she will share all the details of the Summer Reading Program with our students.  Make sure to check in with your student's teacher or us here at the library if you need book title suggestions!!

First Grade:

First Graders this week completed the second week of the Everybody Books challenge.  Students were asked to organize (just as a real Librarian would) the Everybody Cover Books they created as actual books. Students worked in small groups to complete the task and alphabetize the covers in the correct order.  What a hit!  Kids loved pretending to work in the Library and showed promise when starting to search for books independently in the Everybody section.


Third Grade:
Lego Man in Space by Mara Shaunessy was focus of this week's lesson.  Third Graders were introduced to the story of Mat and Asad, two high school students who were curious!!  Speaking of being curious, this tied in perfectly to our virtue focus for the month:  Curiosity!   The book, Lego Man in Space was written to depict the story of Mat and Asad and their journey through putting a Lego man into near space.  This is a great tie in to Science and Math and our line of inquiry!



Fourth Grade:
Today we began a two week series of focus on fact vs. fiction while reading the book, Mighty Jackie, The Strike Out Queen by Marissa Moss.  Students are asked to identify features from the text to support their opinion and predict whether or not it is fact or fiction.  Kids will work next week to unveil a primary source document that they will analyze to determine if their prediction was correct.



This week was full of learning and excitement as the 2015-2016 Sasquatch Award Chapter Book titles were announced!  Thanks to my teaching partner, Ms. Arika for sharing:

• Jinx by Sage Blackwood
• Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown
• Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg
• Monster on the HIll by Rob Harrell
• The Great Trouble by Deborah Hopkinson
• One for the Murphy’s by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
• The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata
• The Adventures of a South Pole Pig by Chris Kurtz
• The 14 Fibs of Gregory K. by Greg Pincus
• Rump by Liesl Shurtliff
• The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
• The Prairie Thief by Melissa Wiley

Take a look at these VERY cool covers!  I'm very excited to start reading these books - great for my Summer Reading List!

Happy Reading!!

Mrs. Bethel