This Week in the Library: April 24 - 28

This week, we saw our 2 teams compete in the district battle of the books (see other post).  Some class times were changed so I could take the teams to the competition.  Here's what we did in library classes this week:

Kindergarten: We heard another farm book, "Zinnia and Dot" by Lisa Campbell Ernst.

Grade 1: We alphabetized the words found in last week's story, "On Market Street." We talked about ways to figure out which letter comes next if you forget.  Students also had the choice of work on alphabet dot-to-dot pictures after check out to reinforce the alphabet.

Grade 2: We talked about the classified section (aka non-fiction).  We talked about how the numbers are classes, how not all of the books in this section are true, and how to use the 5-finger check to see if a book is right.

Grade 3 (Pawling):  We did our post-assessment on coding/algorithms.

Grade 3 (Keating):  We did our lesson on algorithms using paper airplane construction to go through the process of organizing steps in an order to successfully construct a plane.

Grade 3 (Liker):  We completed our paper airplane algorithm lesson and then we took the coding/algorithm post assessment.

Grade 4: We completed a Dewey decimal call number sort in small groups.  Students had to order the cards down to the thousandths place.  Sometime they had to use the letters to "break the tie."

Grade 5 (Wildenhaus): We read new articles online using Newsela.

Grade 5 (Alderson): We created slides on Google Slides using a photograph from Britannica Online (also using their citation) and created a statement of fact, opinion, or false fact.  We also talked a little bit about slide backgrounds and how they can help or hurt a slide presentation.

Grade 6: Continued to work on reading transportation schedules.  We are almost finished with the bus schedules.

Professional: I created the electronic score sheet for the district battle of the books.  I cataloged a few new books for the library, accepted donations of books from families (most will head to classroom libraries),