We are entering our 2nd full week of school and I have seen each class two times. So far we have reviewed our Missouri Reading Award Programs, checked out for the first time, learned how to access digital materials at home, set up Google Classrooms, and become familiar with Overdrive ebooks. Mrs. Haynes met with each class before their second checkout (first with their classroom teacher) and chatted with the kiddos about checkout expectations and a couple of other new things she is working on. She is so good about being proactive instead of reactive to what we know happens each year in our library.
Tomorrow each grade level will begin their first maker unit. These units will include inquiry, mini lessons as necessary to teach/review note-taking, selecting best sources, questioning, citing sources, locating materials in our library and on our website, and instruction/exploration on databases and apps we will be using.
This is our plan...
Fifth graders are designers and will begin worki…
Have you ever lost a dog, and looked everywhere for him/her? Well if you have, you probably feel like Ben. Ben was walking his dog Aggie, and Aggie wanted to play fetch. So Ben let Aggie off the leash to play fetch. Ben threw the ball really far, then Aggie was gone! She ran off! They made posters and Ben made a big banner...will Ben ever find her? Read the book to find out.
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