Draper Elementary Media Center

In December we did our lesson on Nonfiction vs Fiction. We made turkeys and on the feathers were different picture of nonfiction and nonfiction. The students put on the feathers that went with the fiction turkey or nonfiction turkey.

Experiment was on Light and Color. We had three students hold flashlights with color paddles on the front of them, red, blue, and green. Then they pointed to different points and then pointed them to one sport to make a white light. The students had fun trying this.

We play the CD and looked at the in the book “Christmas in the Trenches” by McCutcheon, John with 4^th – 6^th grade classed. 

“I’ve See Santa!” by Bedford, David K-3^rd grade.

For the last week of school we are doing “The Polar Express” on Storyline online. It’s great. We also did a book mark like a polar express ticket.

Have a Great New Year!

Canyons Elementary Media Assistants: December craziness

Canyons Elementary Media Assistants: December craziness: Our library has been quite busy with the onset of December holidays. We've decorated our library and also the glass case. We have tried so h...

Bell View Elementary

We have a tradition at Bell View each Christmas season. We play Christmas Book Bingo. We found a great website, www.dltk-cards.com/bingo, where you can make free bingo cards. We put the names of Christmas books we have in our library on the cards. For prizes we give away inexpensive erasers and of course at the end of the game each child gets a Christmas Bookmark. This year we gave away the cool scratch and sniff bookmarks. The kids really look forward to it each year. It is a fun day in the library. We also make it more challenging to the older kids, if they know the author of the book that we call out they get an extra prize. We play bingo with grades 2-6. Reading the titles of the books for bingo is a bit difficult for the younger ones.

December craziness

Our library has been quite busy with the onset of December holidays. We've decorated our library and also the glass case. We have tried so hard to be "PC"so as not to a fend anyone.
We are working on our Media Modules, thanks to Oakdale and Butler for their input and suggestions.
I will post some pictures when we get them.
Happy holiday's to all
Cathy & Kathy

Bell View Elementary

This year our theme is READING TAKES YOU PLACES! We have displayed maps of Utah, the United States, and the world in our library. We have asked the kids as they travel to bring us back a postcard of the area. We then have the kids share the postcard with the classes, and put a dot on the map of where they have been. The postcard is then displayed on a bulletin board. We also talk a little bit about the place they visited and remind kids that when they read each book has a setting and they can learn about different places all over the world as they read. Some of our children have forgotten to bring a postcard so they just bring a picture of the location that they took with their camera's. One child brought in a picture of himself in front of the Statue of Liberty it was really cool. The kids are enjoying seeing all the dots on the map and sharing their adventures.

Bella Vista's Beehive Book Club

Race to Read

Beehive Books

Utah's most prestigious children's literature competition is in full swing with books nominated in four categories: Picture, Poetry, Informational and Children's Fiction. For a list of all the Beehive Nominees for 2011-12 visit the Children's Literature Association of Utah (CLAU) at http://www.clau.org

How to Become a Member of the Bella Vista Beehive Book Club:

Every student becomes a member of the Beehive Book Club by writing their name on a car and coloring it. Look for the students' vehicles on the "road" wrapping the walls around the library.

"Race to Read" as many Beehive Nominated books for 2011-12 as possible from now until March.

Students visit the library and vote on each Beehive book they read.

Students' votes will be tallied for Bella Vista's winners and turned in to CLAU to be included in the votes for the official Utah competition in the Spring.

Parties, Books and More!

In the Beehive Book Binder in the library, students write their names, teacher's name and grade under the books they have read to become eligible for two potential rewards:

1. Win a Beehive Book! Reading, voting and recording name in the Beehive Book Binder for reading Beehive books makes students eligible for the end of year drawings in each class for the Beehive Winning Book Give Away that will be announced at the Beehive Book Club Party (all students are invited) in the Spring.

2. Help your class win a pizza party. The class that reads the most Beehive books will win a pizza party.

A big THANK YOU goes out to the school administration and PTA for their generous support of our Beehive Book Club!

Parents Get Involved.

Read books with your child or read books before your child does. Discuss the books with your child as they read them to help improve comprehension. There are amazing books nominated this year in every category, but not all Beehive books may be suitable for all ages.

Pictures From Classroom Contest

Here are the pictures from the contest and our castle reading corner! Don't the skeletons look so cute?
Finished the reference media lesson. We will review with the kids every month. Starting to set up for December holidays: Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza. Working on media modules. Have a Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Draper Elementary Media Center

In October we did “Experiments with Solids, Liquids, and Gases” by Tocci, Salvatore. In the front of the book we read about and talked all about these three things. Then we did the experiment called Dancing Raisins. We talked about how the solid was the raisins and the seltzer water was the liquids and gas.

Sometimes when you are doing an experiment sometime it works and sometimes it doesn’t work. And that’s what happens.

In November did “Experiments with Electricity” by Tocci, Salvatore. We read and talked about sparks of electricity (static). Then we did the experiment Making Electrons Move. The students had fun learning about the positive and negative that you can make with balloons (water balloons are great to use for this). And when pepper and salt get mixed together, you can separate them using the power of static electricity.

Also this month we are doing National Childrens Book Week. We are having the students make bookmarks. After the students have finished they bring them to us and put them in a box so that another student gets there bookmark. The students really enjoy getting their friend’s bookmarks.

Our lesson for the month is that you can pick a subject and find a book in the everybody, fiction and non fiction section. We are using the graphic novel( comic book) science series. We are using this series to introduce this format of books to the students.

School Year

Draper Elementary Media Center

This year in the media center we are trying to get the students excide

about science.

The theme this year is Experiment with a book. We have bought a set of True Books: Science Experiments
by Salvatore Tocci.

Once a month we pick one of the books and talk about it and do one if the experiment with the classes. The books have a least 6 to 9 easy experiment for the students to try. These books a great for science fairs.

An Afternoon at Hogwarts

This was so fun we had to share. This is a slideshow from one of Butler Elementary's monthly after school library events. We truly had a magical afternoon last week. We had 60 kids!

Ali & Debbie

Make your own free picture slideshow

OAKDALE DISPLAY BOOKCASE

We recently had an update to our UGLY bookcase. It previously had glass doors and glass shelves. The district sent someone to replace the glass shelves with sturdy wood and a fresh coat of paint. Yay! Now we have nice display shelves.

Currently we are displaying Caldecott and Newbery books. Guess what? The students are checking them out! Interesting how simply displaying something will make it fresh and new!

Tami and Shannon

Oakdale

"Book Look" Bulletin Board

     We are so fortunate to have such a great library at Park Lane Elementary. With over 12,000 books in our inventory, our students have so many books to choose from! This year we decided to help them share their favorites with other students. Near our checkout desk we placed a "Book Look" bulletin board. Students that wish to can complete a short report detailing a book they have read. We suggest they tell us who their favorite character was, what they learned by reading the book, and if they would recommend it to others. If they would rather, they can draw a picture instead.
     When students complete their "Book Look" we post it on the bulletin board. Also, as a "thank you" for contributing, we give them a bookmark. Right now we are using the cool bookmarks we got at our last in-service. We'll be placing an order for more bookmarks soon.
     Student response to our "Book Look" wall has been favorable. It is so nice to see students enjoying their books, and sharing them with others, but even more importantly, it's great to see the "Panther Pride" on their faces when they see their work on our wall. 

Park Lane Elementary

October classroom contest......

Hi all,
This is my first attempt at blogging so here goes.
Kathy Donahue and I went to the district (where you get all the cutouts and stuff).
We came back with enough skeletons for each class, (except kindergarten),
the class needed to work together to put together the skeleton.Come up with their favorite character from a book and dress up the skeleton. We will hang them up around the library and vote for the best one. They have all come so detailed I think everyone should win something. We will post a picture when we get them all in.
We have been reading fractured fairytales to the younger kids. This week it's The three Bears. We are reading Joey Pigza swallowed the key. The kids seem to like the book.
This year we have also created the "Canyon View Cafe" It's an area for the older kids. Grades 3-6 although all the classes use it. We have bean bag chairs, studio chairs, and a small sofa. It helps for quiet reading.
We also have "The Castle" for the younger grades.
Ok I think that is enough rambling. Pictures soon.....

Pottermoe

Attention Harry Potter Fans:

J.K. Rowling's new, safe, interactive website for the Harry Potter books, Pottermore.com will be open for registration at the end of October. And then the registration process will go in phases. Remember, good things come to those who wait!

Bella Vista Elementary students learned about Pottermore.com during story time when we introduced J.K. Rowling for our Meet the Author of the Month for September for the older grades. We shared her biography, read exerpts from Harry Potter books then showed her introducing Pottermore.com on this website so the students could "meet" her. Take a look at this website, it is VERY IMAGINATIVE!

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