Encino Park Elementary Library News
December 2019
Book Fair Success
Our 2018 Enchanted Book Fair was a success. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped us to set up, help students, run cash registers, decorate and clean up! It takes a team to make it successful and we are so grateful for all the help. We are proud of the profits that we made this season and we will be able purchase materials for library lessons, books for teacher classrooms, as well as provide author visits and outside programs for the entire school. We will have our Spring 2019 Book Fair at the end of May just in time for summer so mark your calendars!
Storybook Character Day!
Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate Storybook Character Day by dressing up as favorite storybook characters! The teachers and students had so much fun doing this and we hope we can continue the tradition next year. It was a great way to kick off the book fair. I loved seeing the creative costumes!
Dream Snow
Kindergarten students draw and label pictures to infer what animals the farmer has by looking at clues in the story Dream Snow by Eric Carle. The farmer looks mysteriously like Santa Claus.
Reading about Reindeer
First grade students use Pebble Go to learn interesting fact about real reindeer called Caribou. They then show us what they know by recording and labeling on pictures of real caribou using See Saw.
Enjoying Holiday ebooks
Students in 4th and 5th grade use Overdrive to discover great reads in the holiday collection of ebooks.
Merry Makerspace!
Holiday Lego Challenge
Students enjoy the Holiday Lego Challenge in Makerspace
Crafty Kids
Students use paper and other craft materials to create holiday cards in Makerspace
Santa Tracker
Students enjoy the many learning games on Santa Tracker
First Grade Research
Before Thanksgiving, First grade students spent several weeks learning about how things change over time. They learned specifically about how communication, transportation and recreation have changed not only since Mrs.Figueroa was a first grader but how it has changed over 300 years from Colonial America. This unit of study helps students to understand changes in the way we live and also brings an awareness to how some things haven't changed all that much. Students used non fiction books, the Pebble Go database, a picture sort, and made a timeline to help them understand this better. At the end of the unit, students were able to experience games and activities from Colonial America that included making a clay marble, playing the Hornbook paddle game, using a quill to write, and playing with wooden toys such as a top, a cup and ball and a buzz saw. Students have fun experiencing what life was like long ago.
Picture Sort
First graders sort pictures of transportation, communication and recreation from today and from the past.
Wooden Dice Game
Students used wooden dice to add numbers in one of the research stations.
Quill Writing
Students practiced writing their name and letters with a quill which was much harder than they expected.
Contact Information
Email: mfigue2@neisd.net
Website: https://neisd.libguides.com/welcome_encino_park_library
Location: 2550 Encino Rio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone: 210-407-3222
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/encinoreaders/
Twitter: @EncinoReaders