Lewis and Clark Learns

Every Thursday these 4th grade storytellers work at mastering and sharing their stories.

Much is happening in our library.  We continue to strive for a balance of reading, making and thinking! Yesterday and today we celebrated our summer readers with an ice cream reading celebration. In the past we have had one big party for all kids K-5. That usually means we have around 130 kids in the library enjoying ice cream with yummy toppings.  We have noticed that our kindergarten kiddos tend to get lost in all ice cream madness.  So we changed things up a bit this year and our kindergarteners celebrated their reading with ice cream bars yesterday afternoon in the warm September shade.   Storytelling started this month.  What a great group we have!  They are so dedicated and excited for our storytelling sessions.  Each week they have a short assignment and the kids have amazed us by remembering what they need to do from week to week.  Our resident storyteller is Mr. Eric Haynes.  He is so good with the kids...the...

Storytelling Club this morning was a B-L-A-S-T!  We practiced our stories a couple times through and learned about how important emotion is when telling a story.   We then focused on conveying different emotions through a couple of games.  We are so thankful for Mr. Haynes for volunteering his time to our school!

This is going to be a BIG week in the Lewis and Clark Maker Center!  Three clubs are beginning...6 sessions of MakerKid's Club for 2nd graders (other grade levels will follow), Page Turner's book club for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders and Storytelling Club for 4th and 5th graders.  MakerKids is a new club for us with the addition of our new MakerSpace and Page Turners will be seeing a few new ideas including Shelfies and creating "My Reading Year" journals. Additionally, we will be voting on the designs for our LFL from 18 K-5th grade entries and celebrating our summer reading! Plus, I will be getting ready for next week's Dot Day festivities and working on a couple of grant opportunities.   Several great things happened last week.  A student of ours talked to us about setting up a Chess Tournament.  We are really excited that he felt empowered to come up with this idea.  We are more excited that he will be the one to organize  and run it with...

Lewis and Clark 4th and 5th graders have the oppportunity to join a Storytelling Club this year.  Mr. Haynes (our very own Mrs. Haynes' husband) visited LC 4 days this week to share a story and tell the kids all about the club.  I can't wait to see and hear the kiddos learning and practicing their storytelling skills.  Thanks Mr. Haynes for giving your time to our students.