We were lucky enough to have a couple authors reschedule Skype calls for book club and tech club. In book club, we read Moving Target by Christina Gonzalez. We had a great conversation with Ms. Gonzalez about how book characters can become like a friend or acquaintance. Ms. Gonzalez also talked about how true historical facts inspired her book. The kids enjoyed seeing Ms. Gonzalez's dog as well. In Tech Club, we did a Kahoot game where students discussed robot myths and facts based on Jennifer Swanson's book Everything Robotics. Even though we did this game a while ago, students were excited to talk about robots with Ms. Swanson. Ms. Swanson and the students discussed how a fishing robot would work, as well as the research process for writing science books/creating expedition projects. I thought it was cool that students could figure out what a "robonaut" is - just from their knowledge of how suffixes work!
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It was great to be back at WBS after maternity leave. In 4th grade, we looked at different book trailers for Maine Student Book Award books 2017-2018. We covered the standard "I can appreciate the value of reading a variety of genres, formats and points of view."
Students read a discussion question out loud before viewing the trailer. Next, we watched the trailer. Finally, we looked at a word bank of hashtags. Students used index cards to write a hashtag description of each book. This led to a great conversation about every librarian's favorite topic: keywords! Here's a photo of our display in progress.
In 1st and 2nd grade, kiddos had the opportunity to actually build houses based on their written designs with marshmallows and toothpicks.
In 3rd grade, kids added speech bubbles to wordless picture books to meet the standard I can understand wordless picture books and write speech bubbles to show my understanding. (CSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.2
Determine the main ideas of information presented visually.) This idea comes from Lynne Plourde via Mrs. Parker. This was a really fun activity. Students enjoyed reading the books the following week their classmates wrote. I thought one student really captured that in the book Wave by Suzi Lee there is a conversation between the girl and the wave. We imagined what the wave might be saying to the girl. I couldn't possible show off all the great work, but I can post a slideshow.
Overall a great couple of weeks back! I have a bad case of baby brain and am finding I need routines as much as kids. I'm looking forward to cleaning up the library over the summer to make sure our checkout routines "flow". Enjoy your summer and happy trails, Mrs. Rosenberg
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