Lewis and Clark Learns

Friday, March 2nd was a fun day at Lewis and Clark.  We participated in Read Across America Day!  We estimated, dressed up, made cool bookmarks, matched Seuss characters to their book, and had fun in the photo booth.  Many more fun reading activities were planned in classrooms! 

Tis the voting season.  First, second, third, fourth, and fifth grade readers voted last week for their favorite Mark Twain, Show Me, and GKCRead nominees.  142 readers voted for Mark Twain and GKCRead because they had read at least 4 nominees.  All of my first and second graders voted for their favorite Show Me because we read them together throughout the year.   LC 4th and 5th grade Mark Twain results  Tie for 1st place between T he War That Saved My Life and The Worst Class Trip Ever LC 3rd grade GKCRead results 1st place Rescue on The Oregon Trail LC 1st and 2nd grade Show Me results   1st place The Day The Crayons Came Home Third graders excited to see their Mark Twain list. A big crowd of readers. Cheering for the results. Getting a sneak peak at the covers of next year's list...so exciting! A little voting treat. Viewing the results. Celebrating our reading. Voting with reading frie...

GENIUS HOUR Fourth and fifth grade students started a rotation of Genius Hour learning when we came back to school in January.  We started by focusing on our passions and new learning we wanted to accomplish.  We have researched our topic, created a list of steps to get to our end result, and were sure to cite our sources along the way.  We are busy now working on our projects that we will share with others sometime in March or April. CARDBOARD ARCADE GAMES Our third graders researched inventors and are now building games they invented.  We have worked through the design process and are now in the building and testing phase.  We will be getting feedback from our classmates next week in order to improve our games.   We are working so hard.  The entire school, all 610 students will play our games!   READ Yep, in a library with a MakerSpace, we read...a lot.  We read Missouri award books (a ton of award boo...

My readers are SO excited to have the opportunity to make a real impact on next year's Mark Twain Nominee list.  Just a few weeks into the year, and I have more than 15 readers who have already finished this year's list!  As a result, they are starting to read next year's preliminary list of books and rating them so their opinions can help decide on the final 2018-2019 Mark Twain list!  What a great experience for our passionate and ravenous LC readers.  Anyone who finishes the list has the same opportunity until December of 2017! Good Books!  Good Times!

Last year, I started most library sessions with a book talk, book trailer, book chat, or series highlight as a way to share the love of reading and recommend good books to our readers at LC.  I was thrilled with the enthusiasm around reading as a result of sharing books with one another. While we viewed some really quality book trailers, I realized I wanted to give my kids a chance to show their creativity and their love of books by producing their very own movie trailers to share with our school community through various avenues. So, over the summer I set about making plans for the beginning of the year.  As usual, I jumped in with both feet and fell in over my head:) but that is how I roll and get things done!  At Lewis and Clark there are 200 kids creating videos!  Some decided to work alone and others in small groups. To begin, we viewed A LOT of trailers and wrote down our noticings, good and bad!  From there we selected books and began creating a pla...