Draper Elementary Module 7 Lesson 3 # 5

Our 6th grade classes  were studing Ancient Egypt and Mummies.  They made pyramids and learned how to make a mummy.  They used a chicken for there mummy and placed it inside the pyramid and they displayed them in the media center.  We also made a display of books about Ancient Egypt and pyramids and Pharaohs and Greek temples.  The classes enjoyed this display in the media center.

For an fun activity one week we had each class listen to some poems as we read to them and we also made a chart with a poem on it and had the class say that poem out loud.  The students were given a leaf and they wrote a poem on the leaf and placed there leaf on the Poet-Tree.  We pulled some fun poem books and made a display.  The students had a lot of fun with this activity.

Our 4th grade classes make a float about there county for there report.  They bring there floats into the media center and we display them.  The classes enjoy looking that the floats and learning about that county.

Ridgecrest Media Center Newsletter

Students Display art in Ridgecrest Media Center

Throughout the year the Ridgecrest library has hosted many different student art displays.

Some of our favorites have included:
Scale model of turn of the century downtown Salt Lake City done by the 4th grade students.

Models of area and perimeter projects by the 5th grade students.

Shoebox dioramas of animals and habitats by the 3rd grade students.

Favorite characters from a book created with a pumpkin by the 2nd grade students.

We LOVE having student art displayed in the library!
We plan to continue this tradition for many years to come.

Kirsti and Suzanne
Ridgecrest Elementary

Beehive Awards Promotion

Throughout the year we highlighted the beehive nominees. We read many nominees throughout the year and encouraged students to read as many as they could on their own. In the weeks leading up to the voting deadline we had a presentation on the beehive nominees and reminded the students to read and vote on the books they read. Students who chose to put their names on a valid ballot were entered in a drawing for a prize.

At the beginning of the year we also challenged all students to join us as librarians to check out and read all the nominees available in our library over the course of the year. Anyone who met this challenge would receive a significant reward at the completion of the goal. We have one student who is close to meeting that challenge.

There are some improvements we plan to make in next year’s beehive challenge. First, we will concentrate on reminding students more often of the challenge. Also, we will create a challenge poster or tracking sheet so that students can more actively self-regulate their own progress. Finally, will will make an effort to at least highlight if not read all of the appropriate nominees to individual classes over the school year.

Kirsti and Suzanne

Ridgecrest Elementary

Ridgecrest Media Displays for the Year

Our theme for the year was Oh, the Places You'll Go ........ When You Read.

We then created themed boards to highlight our theme. Here are a few of our boards:

A couple of our other favorite displays this year are our Beehive Nominees area with our 'flying' bees and our Ipod Genre display.

The kids have really enjoyed these displays and continue to comment on them even as the year is drawing to a close.......now what to do next year?
Kirsti and Suzanne
Ridgecrest Elementary

Earth Day Bookmarks

In honor of Earth Day, Monday,April 22,2013.

Oakdale Library made bookmarks with our old,worn out,stinky deleted books.

We always feel horrible getting rid of our books, but this helped ease the pain of our loss.

This was a great example for reusing and recycling and making our environment a GREENER place to live.

The children loved these, and it gave them some good ideas to demonstrate this act on their own. 

Edgemont is Having Fun with Science!

Several weeks ago we read this book to our students...

To make it a bit more exciting, we decorated the library with a bag of these...

The students loved them...of course!

We didn't feel right about throwing away good potatoes, so the following week we talked about the Scientific Method and introduced the library's own science experiment...

Then we read this fun book to go along with what they had learned...

Now our potatoes look like this...

And we have students eagerly checking their growth each week...they can't wait to finally have an answer for the "conclusion" portion of the poster!