Sunday, September 30, 2012

5th and 6th Grade- Mock Election Week 4 -Development of Political Parties

This week we are going to review note taking and practice note taking skills while learning about the development of political parties in the United States.

Political Parties



Saturday, September 22, 2012

4th Grade-Tornado Research and Project-Part 1

Explore the following websites to get a sense of where tornadoes are most common and what conditions are most favorable for the creation of tornados.

Eye in the Sky-Tornadoes

Scholastic: All About Tornadoes

USA Today: Tornadoes-Nature's Most Violent Wind

Use your map to color in areas in the United States where most tornadoes occur and take notes on the back of the map page on the following points for class discussion.

Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons 9/22/12

All About the Presidents!

As a work of the Federal Government, this image is under the Public Domain



Click here to learn about how presidents are elected in the United States.

Click here to discover little known secrets about our presidents.

Monday, September 10, 2012

How do I know if a book is JUST RIGHT? (3rd Grade)

Think about riding a bike...




What do you feel like when riding your bike becomes to tricky?

What do you feel like when riding your bike too easy?

What do you feel like when riding your bike is just right?

This week, we are going to compare riding a bike at different levels to reading a book at different levels.

The Napping House (K)

In kindergarten library classes this week, we will be listening to the "Napping House"

Young Reader's Choice (4th, 5th, and 6th)



The Pacific Northwest Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award is the oldest children's choice award in the U.S. and Canada. The award was established in 1940 by a Seattle bookseller, the late Harry Hartman, who believed every student should have an opportunity to select a book that gives him or her pleasure.(Young Reader's Choice FAQs, pnla.org)




13 Treasures- Michelle Harrison







Fatty Legs - Christy Jordan-Fen














Lone Wolf- Kathryn Lasky













The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan













The Mysterious Howling - Maryrose Wood













The Strange Case of Origami Yoda- Tom Angleberger













Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer- John Grisham

NOMINATIONS
Nominations are taken only from children, teachers, parents and librarians in the Pacific Northwest ~ Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana and Washington.  Nominations will not be accepted from publishers.  Nominations of books that are a sequel in a series will not be considered. Nominations may include fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, animae and manga. (Young Reader's Choice, FAQs pnla.org)
Images retrieved from pnla.org, slj.com September 10, 2012

5th and 6th Grade Mock Election

Over the next 8 weeks students in 5th and 6th grade will be working on a mock election project.  Students will be exploring the election process in the United States  which is a collaboration between library and classroom.  Students will access information from a variety of sources in the library and on-line.  They will read for information and use the information to present a final election campaign project.