Our book fair was a huge success! We were able to profit $500 towards our storyteller who visits every grade level, as well as about $2,000 in Scholastic dollars to buy new books! The books should be here any day! Thank you to all of you who purchased books!
For the past couple of weeks preschoolers have been learning about senses. We read What Do You Do with a Tail Like This, Your Senses at the Beach, and then we used our eyes to read a wordless book called Where's Walrus?
AK students listened to Go Dog Go and Boy + Bot. Last week we played with robots called code-a-pillars after reading.
Kindergartners finished up writing their pages for their class ABC books. We just need to get them bound for checkout! Last week, kindergartners started Hour of Code during computer lab, so we practiced with robots during library. We used Blue Bots, Ozobots, and Code-a-pillars. I think it's safe to say the kids loved their first experiences with robots! We will play with them again this week before moving on to something else after winter break.
First graders have spent a couple of weeks doing robots during library along with Hour of Code during computer lab. We also read When Edgar Met Cecil and Clink, both stories about robots.
Second graders are into our Mock Caldecott unit! This is one of my favorite times of the year. Each class is connected using a Google Classroom to either a class in Solon, West Liberty, or Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The first week, we talked about what the Caldecott medal is and what the criteria are for selection. We also read last years' winners that week-- Du Is Tak?, They All Saw a Cat, and Leave me Alone!
We kicked off this year by reading When's My Birthday? and Why Am I Me? Students completed a short survey about themselves in the computer lab and we'll look at the data from many schools across the midwest to see who is participating in Mock Caldecott this year.
Third graders have been learning about figurative language. We recently learned about idioms. Kids watched Mr. Palindrome give examples of idioms and now they have picked their favorite and are making a Google Drawing for that idiom. Hopefully we'll collect all of these into a book of idioms.
Fourth graders have been listening to The One and Only Ivan and working on forming opinions about the use of animals in the circus. We read an article last week and talked about both sides of the issue. We also watched a video about the real Ivan and his previous owners.
