Mrs. Hollinger delivered two more eye-catching displays! One advertises ebooks based on student recommendations made during the digital book tasting lesson. Students identified a variety of books for each emoji. I've already seen a few students standing near the display with an iPad in hand finding books featured in the display. The other display sits on the circulation counter as a visual reminder to return all library books in only a few short weeks. Where did the year go?
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This week students in kindergarten, first and second grades are reviewing features specific to nonfiction texts. To make the lesson more engaging, I elected to use three different titles: Lego Toys, Cool Creations in 101 Pieces, & Lego Play Book: Ideas to Bring Your Bricks to Life. There have been lots of "Ooh and Aah!" moments while students identify these elements: table of contents, captions, bold print, glossary, index, and headings. At the end of the lesson, students work at makerspace stations to complete at least two Lego challenge cards. Below are some of the creations made by our young Lego enthusiasts. Happy viewing! Kindergarten students have a shortened lesson this week because they have one coding station to finish. Subsequently, I am engaging them in a silly text recommended by my four year old son. Never Follow a Dinosaur has proven to be a hit! This text uses a repeating pattern to describe the dinosaur two children are pursuing. Ultimately, the children decide to set a trap to prove to their parents that dinosaurs do exist. This portion of the plot serves as the inspiration behind this week's makerspace challenge. Students are working in teams to design dinosaur traps using Legos. So far every class has begged me for more time . . . and I'm thinking of honoring their request next week :-) This week our youngest friends (kdg. and first graders) are reviewing the programming concepts of algorithms (steps to finish a task) and debugging (finding and fixing mistakes) while rotating through four stations. Actually, they participate in two stations this week and will engage in the remaining stations during their next lesson. I was the recipient of a community mini-grant earlier in the academic year. Subsequently, I used the funds to purchase "unplugged" resources to complement my computer programming instruction. Several of the resources featured in these stations were added to our resources thanks to grant money. The four stations waiting for students are: Code & Go Robot Mouse, ROBOT Turtles, Littlecodr, and Makey Makey. Ask your student to tell you which stations he/she completed this week and describe what he/she did at each station. Aside from learning, there are a lot of smiling faces and laughter in our library! |
Meet Mrs. BaxterThis is my first year working in the Schwegler library. I seek to instill a love of reading and learning that endures. Archives
May 2017
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