Can You Moo?

The library often sounds a little like a zoo, but this past month, it also sounded like a farm! I read a selection of animal sounds books to the younger classes, including:

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Because students' animal sounds sometimes got a little ... enthusiastic ... I taught them the conductor's cut-off signal. Which reminded me of The Sesame Street All-Animal Orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.

Kindergartners drew animals, and I helped them write what the animals say. Butterflies were popular (according to the kids, they say, "Flutter, flutter"). Meanwhile, DLP and PreK danced to:

And finally, what discussion of animal sounds can now be had without wondering ... What Does The Fox Say?

Minecraft Books are Here!

Behold ... I will be getting some of each for the library collection. And students will be able to buy their very own during the book fair next week.

Fall Book Fair Preview - Book Trailers

Did you know that you can watch book trailers for lots of the titles that will be at our fall book fair?

The video below will give you a sneak peek at the following books aimed at grades K-3:

• Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000
• The Yeti Files: Meet the Big Feet
• Dolphin Tale 2
• Disaster Strikes: Earthquake Shock
• Creepy Carrots
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
• Bugs in My Hair!
• Eerie Elementary: The School is Alive!
• How Do Dinosaurs Say I'm Mad?

And the next video gives you a sneak peek at the following books aimed at grades 4-6:

• Origami Yoda: Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus
• Dolphin Tale 2
• Sisters
• Loot
• Life on Mars
• I am Lebron James
• Ever After High
• Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan
• I Even Funnier
• Mouseheart

Three of These Things with Room 4

We talked about sorting and categories in first grade, since the students are learning how the library is set up so they can choose their own books. After sorting some objects, we watched this classic video:

Then the students created their own "Three of These Things" game board. After viewing their creations below, you can play an online game to see how good you are at figuring out what is different. The link is at the end of this post.

Click here to play the game.


Common Core standard addressed: L.1.5.A - Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

Three of These Things with Room 1

Here are some of Room 1's creations:

Common Core standard addressed: L.1.5.A - Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.