This Week In the Library: January 5 - 9

Happy New Year!!!!  Welcome to 2015.  The library was busy this first week back from vacation.  Here's what we did!

Primary Classes (K-3):  Heard "The Snatchabook" by Helen Docherty.  We reviewed (learned) the words: contentedly, disappeared, rumors, and amends.  We talked about how the Snatchabook made amends and why he was taking books in the first place.  This is another title on our Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award list for 2015.

4th Grade: Continued to practice number order using the Dewey Decimal System. This week we organized numbers to the hundredths place.

5th Grade:  Began a short unit on determining fact and opinion.  Students complete a short pre-assessment and we started talking about fact (they can be true or false, they can be proven) and opinions (they cannot be proven, they can be argued, they can be supported by facts).

6th Grade:  Continued to work on our timelines.  We added events that occurred before students were born onto their timelines.  We will complete this project next week.

Professional: Attended Puget Sound Council for the Review of Children's Books. I was asked and agreed to participation in the district's Wireless Display Device Pilot Project.  I prepared 3 computer carts to be traded with the district for new Chromebooks.  I cataloged the remaining books earned from the book fair (final work on these books - laminating covers, adhering labels - will occur next week.  I helped organize and get the Newspaper Club going and made contact with a newspaper photographer from the Everett Herald to help us with photography.