Whew! I made it. We celebrated Grandparents' Day on Friday with a program and a LOT of visitors to the school. That means that this week was crazy busy getting the building ready (think spring cleaning on a big time scale).
Pre-K
Last week we read Mr. Wiggle's Book to learn how to take care of the library books we were checking out that day. This week I continued with a library theme. After our story-time song we read Book, Book, Book by Deborah Bruss. The children had fun making the animal noises. After we read the book we go back through to see how it was that the bullfrog had already "readit, readit, readit."
For our game I had laminated 10 different colored book die cuts and put magnets on the back. I put them on the white board. As we sang the song, the student that was named would come up and pick out a book and take it to their seat. I would have the kids say what color was taken and then how many books were left.
10 Books in the Library
10 little books in the library,
10 little books as great as can be,
Along comes _________ to check one out.
Now we have ________ books in the library.
Since we have been talking about returning our library books, of course, we have to return these books as well.
We have 0 books in the library
We need more so we can read
Along comes __________
to bring his/hers back
Now we have_______ books in the library
I feel bad that I can't credit where some of these songs have come from, especially as a librarian that expects her students to cite their sources! When I first was gathering my materials I had no idea that I would someday be blogging about it, so I didn't keep track. With this song, I'm pretty sure I made up the returning books part, but it's been so long ago, I'm not certain.
We only had time for one more story before picking out books, so I read A Library Book for Bear by Bonny Becker.
1st Grade
Poor kids. We did the NWEA MAP familiarization test in preparation for testing that starts next week. This year we only have 2 sections of 1st grade. In my first class we had a fire drill (very exciting - they did fantastic especially since I didn't tell them it was coming). Because of the interruption several didn't finish it, but they get the main concept.
2nd Grade
We continued with our Word project. This week we changed the font and printed our document.
3rd Grade
They also continued with their Word project. The focus this week was on how to insert pictures.
4th Grade
I am doing our version of the Monster project. I call it Make My Monster. We start by having the students create a monster in KidPix and print it. We discussed that they will have to write a description of their monster for a student in the other 4th grade class to recreate, so make sure that what they are drawing is describable. I had hoped that we could connect with another school to exchange descriptions, but I waited too long to get something lined up. I may do the project again later in the year now that we have practiced our descriptive writing. I just like to do my project around Halloween and have them displayed in the halls when all the parents are in volunteering at parties.
5th Grade
Trust me, it's coming...They just deserve more than I have time to write about.
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