What's New In Library This Week

Last week in Kindergarten we watched two classic stories on video, courtesy of United Streaming. We watched Make Way for the Duckling by Robert McCloskey, which is a Caldecott Award book and Rosie’s Walk by Pat



Some classes were treated to watch an interview with one of my favorite authors Jan Brett. I got the privilege of meeting Jan Brett last year when she was on tour through Oregon. It was a joy to meet her. Jan Brett is both a talented author, as well as, an illustrator. Our students were treated to watching Jan draw an elephant and they tried their hand at following along with her testing their illustrating skills. We had some great looking elephants from our young artists. We also watched Jan Brett draw a lion, but we gave our hands a rest during that lesson.

We discussed what realistic fiction is with the second graders in B-1 and B-2. Be sure to ask your child how the word realistic can be combined with the word fiction.

The other authors that some students learned about through a video visit were Bill Peet and Louis Sachar. Bill Peet, prior to being a children’s author, worked for a very famous Californian. Ask your student if they know who Bill Peet worked for prior to writing books.

Louis Sachar is best known for his award winning book Holes, but many of our students are also familiar with his Wayside School and Marvin Redpost books.

With our 3rd and 4th graders we talked about the genera Fairy Tales. We discussed the eight elements often found in Fairy Tales. See how many of these elements your child can recall from our lesson.

With the upper grades we continued to talk about the word “plagiarism” and how it affects our reporting skills both now and in the many years of school ahead of them.

We have completed our work on guide words and thesaurus. Our lab time has been cut due to the ELPA testing of students, but we will fill our Library Media time with author study and other areas of library skills.