This Week in the Library: November 21-22

The book fair is over and it's very short week with only 2 school days.  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  See you next week.  Here's what we did in the library on Monday & Tuesday.  Note: if your library day was Wed.-Fri. you books will be due next week.

Kindergarten (Widener): We read "If You Ever Bring an Alligator to School, Don't!" by Elise Parsley.  This is one of our Washington Children's Choice nominees.

Grade 1 (Hirst): We read "Mother Bruce" by Ryan Higgins. This was another one of our children's choice nominees.  VIDEO READING (YouTube)

Grade 5/6 (except Alderson): We started our first unplugged coding lesson.  We explored computaional thinking.  VIDEO Vocabulary: abstraction, algorithm, decompose, pattern match.

Professional: Completed book fair tasks, attended the Edmonds SD Technology Advisory Committee meeting Monday evening.

This Week In The Library: November 14 - 18

This was Scholastic Book Fair Week in the library.

Each class had the opportunity to browse the fair and learned about one of the topics: sales tax, estimating tax, authors/illustrators, and more.  Kindergarten classes heard "Mother Bruce" by Ryan Higgins.  We had a great time.  Thanks to all of the parent volunteers who helped make the book fair a success.  All proceeds went to purchase books for the library (it is our only funding for materials).

Book Fair is Here!

The Scholastic Book Fair is here at Sherwood this week.  The family letter with all of the information is available here:  FAMILY LETTER

This Week In The Library: November 7-10

The Book Fair is coming and this week we are getting ready!  Since there was no school on Friday, book due dates for those students who have library on Friday will be December 2.

All Classes (except Friday Classes): We watched the Book Fair Author/Illustrator video.  The video highlighted some of the books that will be at the fair and some of those authors shared their writing process and inspiration.  There was one video for K-3 and a different one for 4-6

Professional: Attended the staff leadership meeting on Thursday.  Cataloged some donated books and our monthly magazines.  Videotaped some of the performances at the Veteran's Day assembly. Helped with some technology troubleshooting around the building. Set up the book fair with the help of some awesome parent volunteers.

The Book Fair is Coming to Sherwood!

Mark your calendar!!!  The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Sherwood November 14-18.  We will be open 2 evenings (until 7pm) Wed. 11/16 and Thursday 11/17.   This is a great opportunity for students to build their home book collection, get holiday gifts, and support our library.  Prarents/Adults if you'd like to help set up the book fair we could use more volunteers.  Set up is Thursday, 11/10 from 1-4...more hands make it go faster.  Thanks in advance.

This Week in the Library: October 31 - November 4

Wow!  November is here, fall is in the air (sort of).  Here's what happened in Sherwood's library this week.

Kindergarten / Grade 1: Heard "A Perfectly Messed-up Story" by Patrick McDonnell.  We talked about book care and how we can keep our books safe.  Vocabulary: stain, inspire, skipped,

Grade 2 (Gregerson): We heard "Mabela the Clever" retold by Margaret Read MacDonald.  This was a folktale from Africa.

Grade 2 (Holt): We watched the book fair author video.  The book fair is coming Nov. 14-18.  Due to Veteran's Day, Book Fair, and Thanksgiving books checked out will be due Dec. 2.  Remember, you can check in, check out, and renew books before school & at recesses (except during the book fair).

Grade 2 (Rempel): We began reading our Washington Children's Choice Picture Book nominees for 2017.  We learned about this Washington state award and heard "I'm Trying to Love Spiders" by Bethany Barton.  Students listened for facts about spiders and how spiders can be helpful to people.  Vocabulary: millions, billions, venomous, arachnid.

Grade 3 (Pawling, Keating): Heard "A Perfectly Messed-up Story" by Patrick McDonnell.  We talked about book care and how we can keep our books safe.  Vocabulary: stain, inspire, skipped,

Grade 3 (Liker): We watched the book fair author video.  The book fair is coming Nov. 14-18.  Due to Veteran's Day, Book Fair, and Thanksgiving books checked out will be due Dec. 2.  Remember, you can check in, check out, and renew books before school & at recesses (except during the book fair).

Grade 4 (Gibson, Hopper): We began to learn about the Dewey Decimal System used to organize the books in the Classified (non-fiction) section of the library.  We learned about the man who created the system and why learning a little about the system can help when using organization systems.

Grade 4 (Mindt): We watched the book fair author video.  The book fair is coming Nov. 14-18.  Due to Veteran's Day, Book Fair, and Thanksgiving books checked out will be due Dec. 2.  Remember, you can check in, check out, and renew books before school & at recesses (except during the book fair).

Grade 5: We read an article about author/illustrator Chris Van Allsburg.

Grade 6: We continued working on resources lists of website for their upcoming study on Ancient Egypt.

Professional: Attended our bimonthly staff meeting.  The focus of this meeting was technology. I also attended a district website meeting. They shared some ideas for an updated website for the district and the schools.  I cataloged over a dozen donated books for the library.  I began reading "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary Schmidt (Newbery and Printz Honor Book for 2005).  I also submitted our 6 teams for the 3rd Grade Sno-Isle Reading Challenge.