This Week in the Library: October 6-10

Kindergarten: Morehouse:  Students heard "Horace and Morris, but Mostly Dolores" by James Howe. We continued discussing friends and friendship.  We learned where the supplies (paper, pencils, crayons, colored pencils) are in the library and how to get them and put them away.  Students drew pictures of an activity they could do with a friend.

Kindergarten: Cook / Widener: These classes created a list of relatives (mom, dad, grandma, cousin, etc.) and then heard "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia Rylant.  Students then practiced getting supplies and created pictures of their relative.  Sent a letter: Online Version of Letter

1st Grade: Gordon: Students heard "Miss Nelson is Missing" by Harry Allard.  Students learned about the "Everybody" section of the library.

1st Grade: Hirst / Bonnell:  Continued to review how books are organized in the Everybody section.  Heard "I Want to Be an Astronaut" by Byron Barton. 

1st/2nd Grade: Goodsky:  Students heard "Previously" by  Allan Ahlberg.  Students learned about the "Everybody" section of the library.

2nd Grade: Rempel: Students heard "Previously" by Allan Ahlberg.  The class created a chart about the Everybody section which is hanging in the library by that section.

2nd Grade: Gregerson: The class created a chart about the Classified (non-fiction) section and heard "One Tiny Turtle" by Nicola Davies (a true story about sea turtles).  This chart will be hung over the Classified Section of the library!

3rd Grade: Keating: Students heard the beginning of "Penelope Popper, Book Doctor" by Toni Buzzeo.  We discussed book care.

3rd Grade: Pawling:  Student heard the middle of "Penelope Popper, Book Doctor" by Toni Buzzeo.  We discussed water damage, "dog-earing," and book marks.  We will finish the book next week.

4th Grade: Gibson: Learned about Melville Dewey and why he developed a system to classify library books.  This is the beginning of a Dewey unit.

4th Grade: Mindt: Continued our learning about Melville Dewey and his system.  Students looked at each 100 section in the classified section to see what kinds of books were located there.

5th Grade: Alderson (started), Wildenhaus (completed) their library rule posters.  These posters will be hanging in the library!

6th Grade: Bogert (complete), Hanson (started) working on their library skills checklist. Students learned how to create a resource list in their library account.  The resource lists will be used in their upcoming Social Studies unit on Mesopotamia.

Professional: Mr. Sonnen attended the WLMA annual conference over the weekend and is looking forward to trying new ideas and sharing information with Sherwood colleagues.  Mr. Sonnen also showed our new district IT Support Supervisor around the school, introducing him to staff, and sharing successes and issues Sherwood has with our current technologies.  Ancient Egypt books were checked out to 6th grade to support their upcoming social studies unit and rhyming books were checked out to the intermediate intensive support class to support their learning.