Another busy week in the library. We had our school-level Battle of the Best Books competition on Tuesday (see best book post). Here's what we did in classes this week!
Kindergarten: We read "Midnight Farm" by Reeve Lindbergh. The book is a counting book and a rhyming book were a young child explores the farm at night with mom. Before reading, we created a list of animals that one might see on a farm.
Grade 1: We read "On Market Street," a Caldecott honor book, by Anita Lobel. We are beginning a unit on alphabetical order. Next week we will use the words in this book to alphabetize!
Grade 2 & Grade 3 (Keating): We heard "The Beckoning Cat," a Japanese folktale that explains why many Asian businesses have a cat statue welcoming customers.
Grade 3 (Pawling/Liker): We learned about algorithms using steps to make a paper airplane. This was an unplugged lesson from code.org.
Grade 4: We continued to work with the library shelver game to gain more experience in putting Dewey decimal call numbers in order.
Grade 5 (Wildenhaus): We extended last weeks lesson. Students created google slides with a photograph (from Britannica Online), a citation for the photo, and a statement (either a fact, false fact, or opinion).
Grade 5 (Alderson): We read online news articles found on Newsela.
Grade 6: We began our reading transportation schedules using a Metro Bus schedule assignment. We will finish it tomorrow.
Professional: Attended an all day district training on computer science with Mr. Gibson on Wednesday. We learned about lessons that will be a part of the district's new computer science curriculum. Attended the building Leadership meeting Thursday morning. Our topics were parent engagement and summer learning. Had my pre-observation conference, observation, and post-observation conference with Mrs. Shook. Conducted the building level battle of the books. Worked with our tech support person to get older laptops ready for use in first grade.
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