It's Wednesday! What's happening in the Sommer Library?

We started our week off with a wonderful visit from THE Bookworm in our library!  The Pre-K and Kindergarten classes really enjoyed her stories, ventriloquism, and magic.

Our counselors let us know that next week is our first-ever "Start With Hello" event--and we've got books to support the cause.

Read-alouds this week:

Kindergarten classes are looking to the skies in science, so we're reading the nonfiction picture book Sun: One in a Billion.  Our Depth and Complexity icons are "Language of the Discipline" (words astronomers might use), "Details" (we learn a LOT of facts about the Sun!), and "Over Time" (the Sun has been around a long time, and will be for a long time to come!).

First grade is listening to Ms Margocs practice her French in Escargot, the story of a snail who wants to be your favorite animal.

The other half of second grade is thinking about the "Language of the Discipline" for herpetologists while listening to Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles--a picture book biography.

Lessons this week:

Third grade gets to explore our databases to prepare for upcoming research and personal learning!  We're using iPads and qr codes to navigate to the research resources.  Home access passwords have been sent home.

Fourth and fifth grades are adding EasyBib to their district Google accounts to create bibliographies of their sources for upcoming classroom projects.  We're practicing by citing books and websites and learning about using our database citation tools.

It is a "Wonky Week" in the library next week:
Monday--Ms Margocs at monthly district librarians' meeting; library closed for Hearing and Vision screenings
Tuesday--Library closed for Hearing and Vision screenings; Library in the Lobby for checkouts and returns
Wednesday--Checkouts and returns by appointment only for K, 1st, and 5th grade classes
Thursday--Checkouts and returns by appointment only for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade classes
Friday--Library closed for school pictures; Library in the Lobby for checkouts and returns

Coming up next month:  Stephen Swinburne will visit fourth graders to work on writing, and.....Fall Scholastic Book Fair the last week of October!!!

Keep on reading, Stallions!