This Week in the Library: April 20-24

What an exciting week in the library!

Little Eaglets (Preschool Story Time): Ms. Kessler, Sherwood Principal, was our guest reader.  We heard 3 books! One of them was "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak.  Eaglets got color sheets about monsters and the letter M.  Next week's reader (4/30) will be Mrs. Floe, our general music teacher.

Kindergarten:  We continued our exploration of poetry.  This week we heard "Animal Snackers" by Betsy Lewin.  This book contained short poems about animals and the foods they eat.  We also talked about "end matter" material that is sometimes found at the end of a book.  In this book, additional information about each of the animals in the poems was found.  Vocabulary words were: carnivorous, eucalyptus, and recline.

1st Grade: As a class, we alphabetized words that we found in last week's story, "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street" by Dr. Seuss.  We learned how to skip letters when we didn't have a word beginning with that letter and we learned how to order words if they have the same letter.

2nd & 3rd Grade (including Mrs. Goodsky's 1/2 class): We spent time on computers practicing searching for books in the library online catalog.  Specifically students were asked to use a basic search, visual search, and write call numbers on note paper to find books.

4th Grade: We reviewed our previous learning on ordering call numbers in Dewey Decimal order.  We will have a short quiz on this in 2 weeks.

5th Grade:  Completed our poetry book scavenger hunt (see last week).

6th Grade: Completed our look at text features on a Washington State Ferry Schedule (see last week).

Professional:  Attended our school's PLC on student research.  Attended our building's Leadership Team meeting.  Topics included writing, professional development plans, and facility plans for next year.  Continued to work on our building's SBA testing.  We had a practice test for all 3-6th graders to check on wireless capabilities and trouble-shoot any log-in issues.

Took the Sherwood library helpers on a field trip to Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington.  We met w/ several workers there, learned about their jobs, and took a tour of the building.  The students asked some great questions and we had a good time.  We saw some of the 2 million books and 60 miles of shelving!