This week we kicked off our March Madness Tournament of Books! 1st through 5th grade filled out brackets voting on their favorite books out of the top 16 circulated books from this school year. 1st and 2nd filled out theirs using the top 8 picture books, and 3rd through 5th did theirs with top 8 chapter books. They will then go head-to-head at the end to see who wins! It'll be so much fun! It was even pretty enough to utilize our outdoor library space which was great! Earlier in the week the teachers got outside and planted some spinach and kale in our learning garden. Can't wait to get some of that fresh spinach!! Kindergarten did a sequencing activity with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This was to practice numbers, ordinal words, days of the week, etc. It was really fun and they did so well. I even pulled out a little of it for pre-k, and they remember all the stuff the caterpillar ate! Which is a lot! I was VERY impressed. They even remembered he built a "raccoon" (cocoon) around himself before turning into a butterfly! Sweet kiddos. We did this because the first day of spring is The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day, and it happens to be the Sunday before we come back from Spring Break so this was our last chance! I even just so happened to put up a Very Hungry Caterpillar bulletin board earlier in the week, so I just added a note about the first day of spring celebration. Happy accident! Next week is Spring Break (hallelujah!), but with over 2 months left of school, the kiddos have already exceeded our semester word goal for Accelerated Reader. Last semester they read 3,238,397 words, so I set a goal of 5,000,000 for this semester and they went over that this week. HOW AWESOME! I also added so superhero signage to my non-fiction area and applied for a grant! It's been a busy week! Break deserved!My first Read Across America as a librarian! Hooray!! Unfortunately, RAA week was also the same week as standardized testing so I only had 5 classes (out of 17) come to the library. Luckily we had 36 volunteers from around the community come to read Dr. Seuss books to classes in their classrooms! I also had a lot of decor around the school, dress up days, a "what's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?" poll outside the library and a "guess how many goldfish are in a jar" contest going to win a Dr. Seuss book. The classes I did see, we just read Seuss and talked about the who he was. My Pre-K classes were read to by an especially handsome volunteer (I use the term "volunteer" loosely in this case as he was more or less told he didn't have a choice). So even though it was unconventional, we made it work and had a lot of fun. I can't wait for next year!! |
About MeI am a first year elementary school librarian, and let me say it is QUITE the adventure! Although I've worked in public libraries on and off for 10 years, this is a horse of a different color. Bare with me as I brave the new struggles and pure joy that this career is bringing! Archives
March 2016
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