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| First grade is continuing their unit reading stories of strong heroes who are different, but embrace their uniqueness. "Sometimes I'm Bombaloo" is a story of understanding anger and embracing emotion. | | |
| Fifth graders are identifying key ideas in a short passage of infomration text in prepareation for formal note-taking. They'll be using the Fact Fragment website to hone their skills. | | |
| Fourth grade students are in the middle of a unit about computer skills. This week we are exploring Home Row and finding some good websites to practice typing skills. | | |
| In their Homes Around the World unit students are learning about the effects natural resources, economics, and weather have on the homes people build. We will be exploring graphic organizers that show wealth around the world. | | |
| Kindergarten is sharing All About Me as we get to know each other in library class. This week we are reading "The Best Time of Day" as we share our favorite activities during the day. Students will be voting and we will create a graph. | | |
| Second grade students experience a textbook for the first time in their music class. We will be previewing the book so that students understand how to find what they need and how the book is organized. | | |
| Students are continuing to use Ready References to verify facts in the alibis of the suspects who might have stolen the Thanksgiving turkey. | | |
| Students are learning the difference between fiction and information by reading about The Three Bears and Goldilocks and then about brown, black and polar bears. | | |
| Students are continuing their unit about careers by reading Call Mr. Vasquez, He can Fix It!. | | |
| Sally Jean has loved riding since she could walk, but as she gets older, there is no money to replace the bike she has outgrown. This is an NCCBA book and students are evaluating it's vote-worthiness for March. | | |
| Students are beginning a unit about economics and being a citizen in their community by reading Four Feet Two Sandals about two girls in a refugee camp who share a pair of shoes given out by relief workers. | | |
| Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too went for a ride in a flying shoe. This story incites the imagination. Our students will be exploring it through text and video. | | |
| First graders are exploring careers and jobs for the next few weeks. We're starting with the always-fascinating Firefighters! | | |
| Each class is doing something a bit different this month. Mrs. Gilbert's class is exploring the NCCBA book list, Mrs. Kurfees class is reading myths related to astronomy, and Mrs. Park's class is creating videos for the Reflections contest. | | |
| Students are reading the fairy tales they wrote in our new story bubble. | | |
| Shel Silverstein continues to delight our students. This week we're reading about the Muffer (you see him don't you? You don't? Oh dear.) and drawing our own interpretation of what the Muffer looks like. | | |
| Fifth graders are reading about Christopher Columbus and finding the answers to several questions on two websites. They'll be a bit surprised to discover that one website mentions all the cell phones Columbus delivered to the Native Americans! | | |
| What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? We'll be discussing our favorites as we kick off a poetry unit of poems and stories by Shel Silverstein. "Eighteen luscious, scrumptious flavors--chocolate, lime and cherry..." and more! | | |
| We are exploring the lore of North Carolina through several ghost stories. Students will hear the stories and then draw a picture on a map of North Carolina to show the location of that tale. | | |
| For several weeks 5th graders have been trying to figure out the crime committed by the two suspects in Regarding the Fountain. This week all will be revealed! This book by Kate and Sarah Klise has several sequels and students may be interested in other mysteries in our library. | | |
| Students have prepared their version of their favorite fairy tale. They will have time to practice reading and telling their story and then will read the story to the class. | | |
| This week we're viewing an author interview from Reading Rockets where Ms. Polocco discusses the diversity in her books and tells some of the stories her books are based on. We will read Thundercake this week. | | |
| We're reviewing the parts of a book with this fun story based on a fairy tale character--the Big Bad Wolf. Winston is a big fan of books, but he likes to eat them. A wise girl in a red cape and hood teaches him how to read so that he can enjoy the stories in books instead. | | |
| We're learning the parts of a book that relate to care of the book and the author's job. We start simple with front and back cover, the spine and then identifying the title, author and illustrator. | | |
| Students are working in pairs to write their version of their favorite fairy tale. They're drawing the beginning, middle, end and then writing the story to go with the illustrations. | | |
| While reading Regarding the Fountain, we'll be exploring the concepts and features of the mystery genre. | | |
| Students will be working in the computer lab to research their country's houses. We will be asking ourselves: what do the houses in this country look like? | | |
| What happens when your free toy at the drive-thru and everywhere else is a full-size dinosaur? That's exactly what we'll discuss when we read this book, one of the North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees. | | |
| Each class is reading a variety of favorite fairy tales. This week you might hear The Twelve Dancing Princesses or the Horned Toad Prince as you walk through the library! Soon students will be choosing their favorite tale and writing their own version of it. | | |
| Students will listen to this story using Storyline (a website where actors read aloud some of their favorite picture books). We will discuss the author's purpose for writing this book. | | |
| We will learn the five basic parts of a book, which we review in every lesson: cover, spin, title, author and illustrator. This helps us choose books from the shelves and to know about the people who make our books. | | |
| Kinders will read Mr. Wiggle's book to learn how to care for their books. We'll also play the "No, David!" game after reading David Goes to School | | |
| First graders are reading from the North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee list. This week is the no-so-surprising hit The Doghouse. | | |
| We're being our Homes Around the World unit by looking at the 1993 book, Material World. As we look at house pictures from several countries we're predicting what the weather is there, who built the house, what is it made from, and other interesting speculations about life in that region. | | |
| Patricia Polacco writes many stories from her family's history. Meteor is the one of a meteorite crashing onto the family farm in Michigan. | | |
| We are reading great fairy tales to decide "what is great?" Stories include Dustylocks and the Three Bears, Hansel and Gretel, Bigfoot Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, and others! | | |
| In preparation for our "Mystery Project" students are brainstorming all the places we get information. The list is long! | | |
| Patricia Polacco has written many wonderful books. Fourth graders are participating in an author study beginning with Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair which examines a town after they've been addicted to TV for fifty years and left their books behind to fill potholes. | | |
| Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks is one of Ms. Vibbert's favorite books. We are doing a book study with this mystery book to see if we can track the clues and solve the mystery before the book's characters do. | | |
| Students will be choosing their most important landform facts from their research to put into the Southwest Wiki. | | |
| This Eric Carle book explains the steps for making a BIG pancake. Students will follow along as we read and then we'll make real pancakes with strawberry jelly! | | |
| This amusing NCCBA book gives students an opportunity to learn about point of view and interviews. Students will be planning their own "Who is ____? (we can't tell you who!) book. | | |
| Students will be studying a selection of Eric Carle books to learn about his art style. We are watching a short video of him painting and making a collage piece of art. | | |
| Kindergarteners are learning about the items on a book cover that help them choose books. | | |
| First graders are watching a video clip about the great clues we get in books with many pictures about the story and how this reminds us to choose books we can understand without too many words. | | |
| Students are learning about some basic types of books organized in the Dewey Decimal System. This week we're learning about the people books in the 300's and 900's. | | |
| Students are evaluating the NCCBA nominee list based on criteria for 'a good book.' This week they're applying that criteria to Dogku, along with some basic poetry skills. | | |
| Fourth graders are making connections between two NCCBA nominee books. A non-fiction book, Dogs and Cats, and Dogku a haiku poetry book about a new dog. | | |
| Students will learn about what the library is for and will practice choosing a picture book to borrow and take home to read. | | |
| Students are reviewing library procedures and showing what they know about taking care of books. We have plenty of time this week to choose interesting books to read. | | |
| Using the SMARTBoard students will show what they know about library expectations. We will disscuss several interesting units for this year, such as Myths, Soil and PowerPoint, and the NCCBA. | | |
| Students will use the SMARTBoard to show what they know about library expectations. We will discuss our units for the year that include using the Internet to search for information and as a tool for research. | | |
| Students will learn about their upcoming research unit as well as review library procedures. All students will checkout their own books. | | |
| Second graders are beginning a unit to explore the different types of books in the library. This week we'll talk about our favorite series books. Students will also practice library procedures to make our community an orderly one. | | |
| Students share their knowledge about tadpoles as we explore multimedia. Everyone gets a change to add objects to a document using the SMARTBoard. | | |
| We'll review 6 years of library skills in this scavenger hunt activity. | | |
| We are doing research projects about various topics. Students collected information and will document the facts they learned in Inspiration, a program that makes graphic organizers. | | |
| We are illustrating our own nursery rhyme collections. Students are practicing reading them aloud so they know the rhymes. Shhh...don't tell, but we have a teacher we're hoping to challenge to a nursery rhyme contest! | | |
| Third graders are brushing up on their reference skills with some map practice. We're also reading a few good chapter books during this unit! | | |
| We are learning the differences between comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels. Students will be writing their own comic strips. | | |
| Kindergarteners are reading I'll Catch the Moon by Nina Crews and looking at some non-fiction books about the moon. | | |
| First graders are experiencing text with rhythm and rhyme as we read one of Ms. V's favorites: Possum Come a-Knockin' by Nancy Van Laan. | | |
| Fourth graders are writing their own fiction books about animals they have researched in science. They will be following Big 6 problem-solving steps to plan, create and evaluate their work. | | |
| Second graders are studying the graphic novel genre. They will be planning and writing their own novel using the Super 3 problem-solving steps. Keep your eyes open for these new novels coming soon to the library! | | |
| Students will be determining criteria for their own book award, choosing a book to win, and creating a medal to award the book. | | |
| Students will be locating primary sources about their lives to put in a time capsule. | | |
| We find out where we'd like for our feet to take us during the reading of this fabulous Dr. Seuss book. | | |
| Third graders will be learning PowerPoint skills as they put together a presentation about soil. | | |
| Students are comparing two books about wolves, fiction and non-fiction, to identify the differences between the types. | | |
| Students are playing a winter vocabulary game in a race to see who can use guide words to locate items in the dictionary. | | |
| Students are reading this NCCBA Nominee and using multimedia to write a retell in a flow map. | | |
| How do we determine what good media is? How do the details in a book change when a movie is made? | | |
| Kindergarteners will be learning about how the library is organized and what tools help keep the books in the right places-especially the call number stickers on books. | | |
| How is the library organized? What are call numbers and why do we use them? | | |
| Students will use the library catalog (OPAC) to find books in searches by keyword, title, author, subject, and series. | | |
| First Graders will be reading the Princess and the Pea, Sleeping Beauty and many versions of Cinderella. | | |
| We are reading "The Gingerbread Girl" (the gingerbread boy's younger sister!) by Lisa Campbell Ernst. Students are brainstorming other ways the cookie can cross the river and illustrating the best way across. | | |
| We'll learn the answer from our Thanksgiving Mystery! Students will evaluate the process and write about what they learned about Reference Resources from the project. | | |
| Third graders are using non-fiction resources to learn about a holiday. They will design and write a postcard sharing the information they learn. | | |
| We will be learning about Producers and Consumers with The Little Red Hen and Armadilly Chilli. | | |
| In the last of our "magic of three" story we will be making puppets and a puppet theater so we can act out the story. | | |
| We will be comparing Fiction and Nonfiction when we read a books about bears to get information about what they look like, where they live, what they eat and what they do. | | |
| We will be learning about Goods (the pie) and Services (washing mittens) with this nursey rhyme. | | |
| Second Grade begins a Fairy Tale Economics unit by looking at Goldilocks' wants and needs. We'll also learn why the number three (bears) is popular in fairy tales. | | |
| Students will be conducting research for the next four weeks to solve this Thanksgiving mystery. We will explore the use of Almanacs, Atlases, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries. | | |
| Third graders will be beginning research about different holiday traditions around the world. This week we'll identify our goal and brainstorm possible resources for the project. | | |
| During this three week lesson, first graders will be studying characteristics of fairy tales. We'll be exploring tales that use the number three. | | |
| Students are illustrating bookmarks to go with this North Carolina Children's Book Nominee after they discuss their five-star rating for the book and how it meets their criteria. | | |
| This new twist on a familiar song is an entertaining choice from the North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee list. Students will be making their own version of the book. | | |
| After we read about Max's word collection, we'll be starting a magnetic poetry wall to collect our own words and phrases. | | |
| Third graders will be beginning a unit about myths. We will be reading "Piecing Earth &Sky Together." This is a myth from Laos. | | |
| Fifth graders will be using a PBS Kids website to learn about advertising tricks. This is good background knowledge for when we advertise our own mock products. | | |
| Second graders will be determining criteria for evaluating a book and determining if "A Frog Thing" merits the NCCB Award. | | |
| Kindergarteners will be exploring some silly topics during the month of October, beginning first with food. "Food for Thought" is all about art created from fruits and vegetables. | | |
| There are many ghost stories told around our state. Fourth graders will be learning the characteristics of a supernatural tale. We will read one or two mild ones and plot their location of origin on a map. | | |
| We'll read Mind Your Manners B.B. Wolf and have a tea party while trying to decide if B.B. Wolf is actually as big and bad as we first thought. | | |
| Students will listen to a puppet story about diversity and then create their own diverse artwork. | | |
| Students will be previewing some of the great books coming to the Book Fair and learn from authors about how their books are written and illustrated. | | |
| Fourth Graders are continuing their Pirate explorations as they create a pirate map with essential map elements and pirate facts. | | |
| Fifth Grade is creating a trivia game about inventions. After all, everyone should know who invented the light bulb! | | |