Kiker Library News
Weekly Ideas & Resources for Online Learning
Summer Library!!!!
We are so sad that the Kiker Library will be CLOSED this summer and while we will check work email, it will not be regularly. However, we have some fun ideas and activities available to you to KEEP KIKER READING all summer long! Our BLEND will be accessible to you and there you will find some GREAT resources-including a Summer Library page. Below you will find Reading Programs that we encourage you to participate in with your kiddos! Summer Reading is EXTREMELY important for Kiker Comets to be ready when we return to school. Let's all work together to KEEP KIKER READING!!!!
Can't wait to hear about all the books you are reading!
:) Mrs. Butler & Mrs. Smith
Kiker Summer Reading Program
Kiker Summer Splash Reading Log (print the log, color in and submit when complete)
Scholastic Summer Read-A-Palooza (online program--students log minutes, play games, interact with book characters and by logging in students help donate books to kids who need them!)
Other Reading Programs
As a way to encourage reading this summer, here are a few more programs in which our Kiker Comets can participate. Below you will find links to each of the programs. Our BLEND page has links and printable logs as well.
- Austin ISD 5BookDive in conjunction with BookPeople (earn $5 Book People gift card)
- Austin Public Library (earn virtual prizes)
- Barnes& Noble Summer Reading (earn a free book)
- H-E-Buddy Summer Reading Club (earn a t-shirt)
Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Butler, Kiker Librarians
Students will have access to our Kiker Elementary Library Course in Blend (accessed through Student Portal).
Example Student Login:
Jane Doe / Birthday: March 15, 2019 / Student #: 10023456
AISD Technical Support for Parents - please call 512-414-9187 or CLICK HERE to email your question.
- Username: S10023456
- Password: D031519s
Website: http://kikerelementary.org/library
Location: 5913 La Crosse Avenue, Austin, TX, USA
Phone: 512-414-5360
Facebook: facebook.com/kikerlibrary
Kiker Library: May 11-15, 2020
This Week in the Library
Pre K - Storytime: Oceans & Beaches
K-2 - Storytime: Oceans & Beaches
3-5 - Digitial Citizenship Choiceboard
Fun Stuff - Reading BINGO, New Lego Challenge (Create something using one type of lego), Weave a Bracelet or Bookmark
Resource Spotlight: Britannica School Elementary
- Log in to your AISD Portal account, select MackinVia, and click on "Databases" -OR-
- https://school.eb.com/levels/elementary (Links to an external site.)
- username: austin2
- password: austin2
What's Mrs. Butler Reading?
Piper's life is turned upside down when her family loses their home and have to move into a family shelter in a new city. She misses what she had before and hates being labeled "homeless" at her new school. Baby lives in a park with his person, Jewel. Baby loves his life on the streets with Jewel because they are never apart. That is, until Jewel gets sick. Told from alternating points of view, Stay explores the meaning of home and celebrates the power of friendship and hope.
Audience: 3rd-5th
This book is the 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee list.
This book is available in MackinVia.
What's Mrs. Smith Reading?
Dream On, Amber by Emma Shevah
Amber's half-Japanese, half-Italian background means she's stuck with a ridiculous name, which is a challenge when trying to make friends at her new school.
But the hardest thing about being Amber is that a part of her is missing. Her dad. He left when she was little, and he isn't coming back. Not for her first day of middle school and not for her little sister's birthday. So Amber will have to dream up a way for the Miyamoto sisters to make it on their own.
Audience: Grades 3-5
This book is available in GoFollett.com.
Kiker Library: May 4-8, 2020
This Week in the Library
Pre K - Storytime: Oceans
K-2 - Storytime: Children's Book Week--Storytime Choice Board (LOTS of stories from which to choose)
3-5 - Children's Book Week--Read Alouds, That Book Woman and Waiting for Biblioburro
Fun Stuff - Reading BINGO, New Lego Challenge (Build a model of your room!), Make Paper Bag Book
Resource Spotlight: World Book Kids
- Log in to your AISD Portal account, select MackinVia and click on "Databases" -OR-
- Go to https://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/home
username: austin2
password: austin2
What's Mrs. Butler Reading?
Ranger is a time-traveling Golden Retriever! He has a nose for trouble and always finds a way to save the day! In this book (6th in the series--books are not chronological so you can read in any order), Ranger goes back to the Great Earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 and helps Lily and May as they try to flee to safety.
*Adventure, Historical Fiction Series for 2nd-5th
What's Mrs. Smith Reading?
by Jonathan Auxier
After her father's death, ten-year-old Nan Sparrow is forced to work as an assistant to a chimney sweep in nineteenth-century England. One day, she drops her favorite possession in a fireplace and accidentally creates a golem made of soot and ash. Together the two outcasts try to carve out a new life.
Fantasy, Historical Fiction
Available on MackinVia (multiuser)
Kiker Library: April 27-May 1, 2020
This Week in the Library Blend
Pre K - Storytime: Plants
K-2 - Storytime: Frogs! Tale of a Tadpole (nonfiction) & I Don't Want to Be Big! (fiction)
3-5 - Fiction Genres Lesson, Fiction Genre Fortune Teller/Bookmark Printable
Fun Stuff - Reading BINGO, New Lego Challenge, Make Earth Day Binoculars
Resource Spotlight: Scholastic
What's Mrs. Butler Reading?
by Ryan Calejo
I am excited to read this fantasy, adventure, Bluebonnet Nominee! Reviews say its for older elementary students (5th grade) so if you have a 3rd/4th grader who is interested, this may be a good family read aloud! Here's the summary:
"Charlie's abuela, a fantastic storyteller, has raised Charlie on stories centered around Hispanic folklore. Little did Charlie know that while he was enjoying a great story, she was actually preparing in for a showdown between good and evil. When Charlie's parents disappear, it's up to Charlie and few trusting friends to face some very real mythical creatures in the fight to not only save his parents, but their own lives."
What's Mrs. Smith Reading?
By Sally Warner
No pets are allowed in her house because Alfie is allergic to cats. Her best friend's cat has kittens and she falls in love with the small gray one. What is she to do? This is the first book in the series.
Kiker Library: April 20-24, 2020
This Week in the Library Blend
Pre K - Storytime: Plants
K-2 - Storytime: Tops & Bottoms, Plant Craft/Ideas/Extensions
3-5 - Bluebonnet Lesson, Book trailers for all the 2020-2021 Bluebonnet Books!
Fun Stuff - Reading BINGO, New Lego Challenge, Make a Birdhouse
Resource Spotlight: MyOn
https://www.myon.com/school/readaustin (Links to an external site.)
BLDG Name: Read Austin
Username: student
Password: read
What's Mrs. Butler reading this week?
"From the author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel Pax comes a gorgeous and moving novel that is an ode to introverts, dreamers, and misfits everywhere, ideal for readers aged 9–12" from publisher Harper Collins. Read more about the book by clicking the title.
What's Mrs. Smith reading this week?
By E.L. Konigsburg
If you want to read a book that you will remember for the rest of your life, read this one. This book was originally published in 1968 and won the Newbery Award. In the book, Claudia and her younger brother Jamie decide to run away from home and where do they go? Well, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, of course. It is a classic!
Kiker Library: April 13-17, 2020
This Week in the Library Blend
Pre K - Storytime Daniel Finds a Poem
K-2 - Storytime Daniel Finds a Poem, Poetry Craft/Ideas/Extensions
3-5 - Poetry Lesson, Poems read from They Call Me Guero: A Border Kid's Poems
Fun Stuff - Reading BINGO, Lego Challenge, Make a Paper Plate Marble Maze
Resource Spotlight
This website has almost 4,000 interactive ebooks including non-fiction in all subject areas, high-interest series fiction, graphic novels, and more. Books can be read independently or will be read to users. Students have multi-user simultaneous access.
Temporary access to expanded ebook library provided during the COVID19 crisis only.
https://www.mycapstonelibrary.com/
- username: continue
- password: reading
*Tutorial can be found in our Blend under Helpful Tutorials
What's Mrs. Butler reading this week?
This book is the sequel to Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.
The first book was a moving, unforgettable story of a girl named Aven Green. Aven has many challenges in life, one being that she was born without arms. Aven is witty and funny and definitely not helpless. Momentous Events brings a new challenge for Aven, she is starting high school! Recommend that you start with the first book.
This one is not available in MackinVia, but you can find it at Austin Public Library.
Audience: 5th and up
What's Mrs. Smith reading this week?
By Padma Venkatraman
A story of four homeless children who are finding to make a life for themselves in Chennai, India. This book is the 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee list.
This book is available on MackinVia.
April 6-10, 2020
Hi Kiker Comets!
We hope you are well. Since we won't be seeing each other for a bit, we wanted to share some great resources that you can use at home during this time away. We will be putting out weekly newsletters highlighting different resources and maker space ideas! If you need anything at all, please feel free to send us an email Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Smith . We will be checking email regularly.
Hugs,
Mrs. Smith & Mrs. Butler
This Week in the Library
Pre K - Storytime All Year Long
K-2 - Storytime All Year Long, How to Use MackinVia
3-5 - How to Use MackinVia
Fun Stuff - Reading BINGO, Lego Challenge, Make a Fun Marble Run
Resource Spotlight
MackinVIA is ALWAYS Open!
Comets, don't forget about MackinVIA! All AISD students have access to it through your student portal. Just search "MackinVIA" and click on the tile. There are over 16,000 e-books, including audiobooks. There are also 1,376 books in Spanish!
Plus, there is easy access to kid-friendly online databases on the left-hand menu by clicking "Online Resources". There you can find:
- PebbleGo
- World Book Kids
- National Geographic Kids
- World Almanac Kids
MackinVia Fun 5 for Each Grade Level!
Here are Mrs. Smith & Mrs. Butler's "Fun 5" books to read for each grade level
PreK:
- Boo ABC: A to Z with the world's cutest dog (after reading go on a letter hunt)
- Animal Patterns (find patterns in your world)
- Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Mo Willems classic!)
- Colors All Around (make a color collage)
- Crunch The Shy Dinosaur (fun, interactive story)
Kinder:
- Backseat A-B-see (Go on an ABC scavenger hunt in your neighborhood)
- Animals Big and Small (draw your own Big/Small pictures)
- Map My Room (draw a map of your own room--other books in this series)
- Berenstein Bears picture book series (classic characters kids love)
- Cats: the sound of short A (simple beginning reader)
1st:
- I Am A Reader (fun, first grade level series)
- From Wax to Crayon (maybe melt down old crayons to create new multi-color crayons)
- Alma and How She Got Her Name (talk to your kids about how they got their name)
- Katie Woo (first grade chapter book series)
- Dino-Baseball (others in series basketball, football, wrestling)
2nd:
- Rot, the Cutest in the World (funny picture book about self confidence)
- Boy+Bot (make a robot costume using found objects at your house or draw your own!)
- Cam Jansen series (great mystery series)
- DK First Animal Encyclopedia (then use PebbleGo to learn more about animals that interest you)
- 5 Steps to Drawing Cats and Dogs (lots of others in this series)
3rd:
- Creature Features (checkout the other Steve Jenkins books too!)
- Alvin Ho (the whole series is available on MackinVia!)
- Dory Fantasmagory (fun loving character chapter book series)
- Picture Books by Patrica Polacco (third graders should read Picture Books too!)
- Explore and Draw Series (you learn about subject and how to draw it)
4th:
- Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics (all Steve Jenkins books are fascinating and you can use Google Draw to make your infographics)
- Alamo All-Stars (read other historical fiction graphic novels by Hale)
- The 13th Story Treehouse (other books in this series also available)
- Biggest Names in Sports Series (for those that love learning about famous sports players)
- Check out the Group: 2020-2021 Bluebonnet books on your MackinVia Home Page (get a head start on the new list for next year!)
5th:
- The Menagerie (Enchanting fantasy series with lots of twists and turns! All three in MackinVia)
- The Book of Elsewhere (SCARY! series not for the faint of heart! All five in MackinVia)
- Time for Kids Nonfiction Reader series (so many topics to choose from)
- Rocket to the Moon (science graphic novel that's on the 2020-2021 Bluebonnet Reading List
- Who Was series (great biography series)
Austin Public Library
Visit the Austin Public Library's virtual library to access more online books and resources.
https://library.austintexas.gov/virtual
If you lost your library card, you can apply for a free e-card here
https://register.library.austintexas.gov/index2.cfm?product=virtual
Maker Fun At Home!
ReAdiNg BiNgO
Kids can find ways to make reading fun. When they complete 5 in a row, then can submit a Bingo Entry! This will put their class' name in a drawing for a live, librarian story time during one of their class meetings!
What's Mrs. Butler reading this week?
Frankie Sparks and the Class Pet
This is a book on the New Bluebonnet List.
It's geared to kids 1st-4th.
This book is available in MackinVia.
What's Mrs. Smith reading this week?
By Anne Ylvisaker
This historical fiction book takes us to
a small town in Iowa where Tugs, a tomboy,
comes upon a mystery that only she can solve.
This book is available on MackinVia.