Olmos Library Newsletter
January
Library Stats for January
Total Checkouts per grade level:
- Kinder- 197
- 1st- 131
- 2nd- 318
- 3rd- 312
- 4th- 192
- 5th- 374
Total checkouts (includes grade levels and staff)= 1,6709
3rd Grade Research- Rapid Changes in the Earth's Surface
3rd grade classes came into the library for a co-teach research unit about Forces of Nature. Each class chose 1 force of nature to focus on during the library portion of the research unit. By the end of the unit students will have learned about the types, locations, and causes of Rapid Changes in Earth's Surface (blizzards, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, tornados, tsunamis, wildfires and volcanic eruptions) and will be able to explain how to prepare for and respond to them. Students Final Project was to create a Discovery Education Board using the information they gathered.
Fiction versus Non Fiction
Kinder students learned the difference between Fiction and Nonfiction books as well as some interesting facts about penguins. The students enjoyed reading Flight School (Fiction) and an easy nonfiction book about penguins that was read in English or Spanish depending on the class (monolingual, bilingual, dual). After we read and discussed both books, students colored a penguin picture that could be used with the Quiver App. The Quiver App allowed their picture to transform into a 3-D image that moved.
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Two Bad Ants
2nd grade students were introduced to the book called Two Bad Ants and our lesson centered around Visualization and Descriptive Words.
We read a short paragraph from Bad Ants (they could not see the cover or any pictures from the book).
We used a practice paragraph first (together we picked 2-3 descriptive words from the sentences) and then I showed them my example of the work I did on the iPad.
After the practice we then read a different paragraph that they were to use.
1st time we read to enjoy and to get a mental picture in our heads of what was happening.
2nd time we read for information- descriptive/describing words.
Now they were ready to use the iPads: Write your name, write down 2-3 descriptive words from the paragraph (the paragraph was displayed on the Smartboard the whole time), then use the information we just read about to draw a picture of what was happening.
In this brief tale of the adventures of two runaway ants, Van Allsburg once again gives children a visual puzzle to solve in this case identifying common household appliances from an ant's point of view. Two greedy ants stay behind in the sugar bowl, eating their fill and then falling asleep. Their slumbers end when a giant scoop drops them into a sea of boiling brown coffee.
-Publishers Weekly Review
Objects In The Sky
It's A Tiger!!
How do I get to my destination?
Read 5 then Decide!
Students in 3rd-5th grade who read at least 5 or more Bluebonnet books and passed the tests received a Voter's Registration card and invitation to the Bluebonnet Party. This year we had the most participation and we even had eight students who read 6 or more books. Two 4th grade students who attended the Bluebonnet Party last year as 3rd graders once again participated and were able to vote and attend the party.
On January 27 students came to the library with their voter's registration card and submitted their ballots for their favorite Texas Bluebonnet book. At the end of the week students who received invitations were able to attend the Bluebonnet Party where they enjoyed some tasty treats, played Bluebonnet Book Trivia using the Kahoot app via the iPads, and won some cool prizes. The book with the most votes was The Misadventures of Salem Hyde: Book One: Spelling Trouble by Frank Cammuso.
Young witch Salem Hyde wants to win the spelling bee and be crowned the spelling queen, but when she accidentally turns the school's crossing guard into a dinosaur, she know she needs help with her spells (and, coincidentally, her spelling). Enter Percival J. Whamsford III, a cat who has helped many witches over the past 800 years, and he still has five lives left. But Salem is a challenge: she flies on a vacuum cleaner, she's impatient and impulsive, and she gets her spells just wrong enough to cause big havoc. For instance, when Salem casts a spell to win the school spelling bee, misspelled words come to life, turning the teacher whose constant lecturing made him a bore into a garbage-munching boar. Can Whammy help Salem put things back to normal before Mr. Fink gets her expelled? And can Salem learn to be a great witch after all?
-Booklist Review-
Library Contact Information
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Location: 1103 Allena Drive, San Antonio, TX, United States
Phone: (210) 407-6004
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