Intermediate (4-6, Except Friday Classes): We learned about the Best Book Program and learned about some of the titles on this year's best book list. Some classes are finished with the book talks, others will finish next week.
Friday, January 29, 2016
This Week in the Library: January 25-28
It may have been another shortened week, but it was a busy one in the library. Here's what went on in the classes:
Primary Classes (K-3, Except Liker): We read "This is a Moose" bu Richard Morris from our Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominee poster. It was a fun look at some animals making a movie about the mighty moose. We also noticed the glossary in the back of the book which gave use definitions of movie making words. Vocabulary words: take, cut, director, glossary.
Intermediate (4-6, Except Friday Classes): We learned about the Best Book Program and learned about some of the titles on this year's best book list. Some classes are finished with the book talks, others will finish next week.
Professional: During the individual work time on Thursday and Friday I worked on a variety of things: weeding and removing old/damaged books from the catalog, cataloged new books, and technology. On Tuesday evening I attended the Edmonds SD Librarians meeting at Scriber Lake HS. We focused on databases, and school library research studies. I also read the novel "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart and began to track down possibilities for the 2017 WCCPBA list.
Intermediate (4-6, Except Friday Classes): We learned about the Best Book Program and learned about some of the titles on this year's best book list. Some classes are finished with the book talks, others will finish next week.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Edmonds Public Library Offers Homework Help on Wednesdays
HOMEWORK HELP FLYER
Friday, January 22, 2016
Donor's Choose Grant Update
Update! We have had 10 donors give $700 to our grant project. Thank you donors!
We need $165 more to have our grant funded. If you know anyone who might want to give, send them the link below. Any amount of donation can help. Details about the project and funding can be found by clicking on the link below.
Building a Library STEM Makerspace Can Be a Snap!
We need $165 more to have our grant funded. If you know anyone who might want to give, send them the link below. Any amount of donation can help. Details about the project and funding can be found by clicking on the link below.
Building a Library STEM Makerspace Can Be a Snap!
This Week in the Library: January 19-22
A short week because there was no school on Monday, Jan. 18 (MLK Day). Books for Monday classes will be due on Monday, January 25.
Primary Classes (K-3, Except Monday classes & Goodsky): We read "The Secret Lives of Squirrels" by Nancy Rose from our Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominee poster. This photo story tells about Mr. Peanuts as he prepares his home for a visit from Cousin Squirrel. We looked at the end matter in the book where we found information about wildlife photography and a Question and Answer section with the author that describes how she created the scenes and enticed the squirrels to visit. If there was time we watched a couple of short videos showing squirrels figuring out obstacle courses (link below). Vocabulary words: chattering, penmanship, vacuums, scrumptious.
Thursday, January 21 was Squirrel Appreciation Day. Click on the link for more information! Squirrel Video, Secret Lives Slide Show (YouTube may not be available at school)
Grade 2 (Goodsky): We reviewed what we learned about magazines last week and then we worked in table groups to explore magazine titles we have at Sherwood. Students looked for title, audience, topic, and advertisement.
Grade 4: We learned about the Best Book Program and learned about some of the titles on this year's best book list. We'll learn about the rest of the books next week. Mr. Gibson's class also completed their strong passwords assessment.
Grades 5 & 6: We continued to learn about the titles on this year's best book list. We'll finish next week.
Professional: Laminated book covers, checked in Scholastic News issues, cataloged magazines and a few donated books. Continued looking for donors for our Donor's Choose Grant (we're have less than $200 left to have donated), Made arrangements for the 3rd grade Sno-Isle reading challenge. Created a book list with call numbers from the Book Whisperer appendix. Attended this week's staff meeting and Foundation for Edmonds SD ambassador meeting. I also had my annual formal observation and pre-observation meeting. As usual, I troubleshot several tech issues around the building.
Thursday, January 21 was Squirrel Appreciation Day. Click on the link for more information! Squirrel Video, Secret Lives Slide Show (YouTube may not be available at school)
Grade 2 (Goodsky): We reviewed what we learned about magazines last week and then we worked in table groups to explore magazine titles we have at Sherwood. Students looked for title, audience, topic, and advertisement.
Grade 4: We learned about the Best Book Program and learned about some of the titles on this year's best book list. We'll learn about the rest of the books next week. Mr. Gibson's class also completed their strong passwords assessment.
Grades 5 & 6: We continued to learn about the titles on this year's best book list. We'll finish next week.
Professional: Laminated book covers, checked in Scholastic News issues, cataloged magazines and a few donated books. Continued looking for donors for our Donor's Choose Grant (we're have less than $200 left to have donated), Made arrangements for the 3rd grade Sno-Isle reading challenge. Created a book list with call numbers from the Book Whisperer appendix. Attended this week's staff meeting and Foundation for Edmonds SD ambassador meeting. I also had my annual formal observation and pre-observation meeting. As usual, I troubleshot several tech issues around the building.
Friday, January 15, 2016
This week in the Library: January 11-15
It's Kindness for All Week at Sherwood. Here's what we did in library class during the week,.
Primary Classes (K-3, except Mrs. Goodsky): We read "Lifesize Ocean" by Anita Ganeri from our Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominee poster. This book shared information about 12 ocean animals and will be shelved in our Classified (non-fiction) Section. We discussed the table of contents and how it can be used to help with research. We also looked at the end matter that had even more information about the animals. Vocabulary words: contents, camouflaged, ferocious, venomous.
Grade 2 (Goodsky): We created a poster about the Magazine section. We learned that magazines were periodicals, have a specific audience, and a certain topic. We also discussed how and why some magazines have advertising. We will explore more about magazines next week.
Grade 4: We continued our unit on digital citizenship. Mr. Gibson's class shared out their work on creating strong and weak passwords for a famous person (they found details about the person from a biography). Mrs. Mindt's class took a short assessment on creating strong passwords.
Grades 5 & 6: The Best Book program was described and a few of this year's titles were shared in book talks. We will learn about the other titles in the next few weeks.
Professional: Read "The Book Whisperer" by Donalyn Miller, a great book about independent reading for kids and ideas for teaching reading and sharing books. Troubleshot technology issues around the school. Found folks to support our Donor's Choose grant (less than $300 left to find!). Prepared for my upcoming lesson observation. Sent date suggestions to the public library for our upcoming 3rd grade reading challenge school contest.
Grade 2 (Goodsky): We created a poster about the Magazine section. We learned that magazines were periodicals, have a specific audience, and a certain topic. We also discussed how and why some magazines have advertising. We will explore more about magazines next week.
Grade 4: We continued our unit on digital citizenship. Mr. Gibson's class shared out their work on creating strong and weak passwords for a famous person (they found details about the person from a biography). Mrs. Mindt's class took a short assessment on creating strong passwords.
Grades 5 & 6: The Best Book program was described and a few of this year's titles were shared in book talks. We will learn about the other titles in the next few weeks.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Library project on Donor's Choose
Our grant request to Donor's Choose was approved. We now wait for people to fund the project. If you know anyone who can help send them this link. Also, any donations by Jan. 18 w/ the code LIFTOFF will be doubled by Donor's Choose!
Building a Library STEM Makerspace Can Be a Snap!
Building a Library STEM Makerspace Can Be a Snap!
Monday, January 11, 2016
Margaret Peterson Haddix to visit Third Place Books
Author Margaret Peterson Haddix will be at an author event at the Third Place Books store in Lake Forest Park on Friday, January 29 at 6:30 PM. She has written many books for kids including: "Among the Hidden" (Best Book 2001, Shadow Children series), "Found" (Best Book 2011, The Missing series), "Running Out of Time" (Best Book 1998), "Double Identity" (Best Book, 2008), and many others. She is promoting her newest book, "Under Their Skin" at this event.
More information can be found here: Haddix Visit @ TPB
More information can be found here: Haddix Visit @ TPB
Friday, January 8, 2016
This week in the Library: January 4-8
Primary Classes (K-3): We read "Gaston" by Kelly DiPucchio from our Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominee poster. This story looks a two dog families: the Poodles and the Bulldog. A mix-up occurs. We found the differences between the families and we discussed the author's purpose in writing the story. Vocabulary words: teapot, grace, pooches, proper, oui
Grade 4: We continued our unit on digital citizenship. We practiced creating strong passwords but creating passwords for historical figures. Groups looked in easy biographies to find some facts about the person and then created a strong and a weak password (Mr. Gibson's class will complete the group work next week).
Grades 5 & 6: We began looking at the Best Book List for 2016 by writing questions related to the first lines of the various books. In groups students developed who? what? why? when? where? and how? questions
Professional: Helped staff adjust to our new large format display units that were installed over winter break. Pulled books on empathy for 1st grade and books on New Years for 2nd grade. Attended the staff meeting which was focused on questioning. Started working on a Donor's Choose grant for the library.
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