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Message from Mrs. Anderson

Happy Birthday Text Messaging!

On December 3, 1992, the first telephone text message was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth.  He sent the message "Merry Christmas" from his computer to a co-worker's mobile phone. Billings Gazette. December 3, 2012.

2nd Grade Math Tech Time

1.  Complete your Xtra Math

Xtra Math

2.  Odd Number Blaster

Number Blaster

2.  Christmas Lights

Math Fact Fun

3. Let's try something different at Tech Time:

Word Builder

1st Grade Math Tech Time

1.  Complete your Xtra Math:

Xtra Math

2.  Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread Man

3.  Picture Match

Picture Match

4.  Christmas Lights

Math Fact Fun

3rd Grade- Test your Author's PIE knowledge!

In library, we have been discussing author's purpose.  This week we are going to test our skills in determining the author's purpose.

With your partner go to a computer and click on the link below and determine if the following headings are intended to:

Persuade
Inform
Entertain

Purpose Challenge

When you are finished you may start check-out :)

Mock Election Results

The Winners are... Frenk: Coke and Gummy Bears- Albarez: Bugs Bunny and Football- Umemoto: Coke and Doritos- Bottstein: Pluto and Gymnastics

Make your own free scrapbook

4th Grade- Books Through the Ages

In library, we are going to participate in an activity that provides a brief history of books.


History of Books

How Books are Made

3rd Grade Author's Purpose Activity

An author's purpose means that authors write to communicate something.

 Author's Purpose PIE

Persuade:  to convince the reader of a certain point of view

Inform:  to teach or give information to the reader

Entertain:  to hold the attention of the reader through enjoyment

Together let's explore this activity to help you determine an author's purpose:

Author's Purpose

Health

Click on the links below to explore your topic...

4th Grade

Skeletal and Digestive


5th Grade

Heart and Lungs


6th Grade  

Brain

2nd Grade Author Study Resources

Authors- Click on the author's name below and explore their websites and watch interviews.

Robert Munsch

Audrey Wood

Gail Gibbons
Gail Gibbons Video

Marc Brown
Marc Brown Video

Cynthia Rylant

Eve Bunting
Eve Bunting Video

David Shannon
David Shannon Video

Dr. Seuss

Mo Willems Video

Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola Video

Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac Video

Kevin Henkes
Kevin Henkes Video

Laura Numeroff

Jack Prelutsky Video
Jack Prelutsky

Contest for 3rd-6th Grade Students

Enter our contest to be one of the first three students to check out the new

 "Diary of a Wimpy Kid:  The Third Wheel"

Available in our library on 11/14/12

See Mrs Anderson for details !!!

Mock Election Resources Part One

Examples for bios and platforms:

Bio for President Barack Obama 
Bio for Mitt Romney

Agents of Change- Political Roots and Attitudes

Platforms for Major Political Parties in U.S.:

RNC 2012 Platform
DNC 2012 Platform

1st Grade Math Tech Time

1. Complete your math practice on:
Xtra Math

2. Then you can click on the following links to more fun math practice

 Skip Counting By 2, 5, and 10
Click on Skip Counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's, Click on Start your activity, Click on start

Number Order

100 Number Grid

2nd Grade Math Tech Time

1. Complete a practice session on
 Xtra Math

2.  Then chose any of the following fun math practice activities:

One Digit Addition
Click on one digit addition, click on start your activity

Math Man

Dolphin Feed: Counting Money

Tornado Research Presentation

Introduction 

Banned Books Week September 30th- October 6th

4th Grade Tornadoes-Part 2

Explore the following websites about tornado safety and answer the questions on your note page.

FEMA for Kids: Tornadoes

American Red Cross: Tornado

NOAA: Tornado Safety

Caring For Animals

Image retrieved from Windows2Universe.org  October 2, 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

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.

2nd Grade Math Tech Time

Math Facts Basketball

Balloon Pop Subtraction

Math Lines

1st Grade Math Tech Time

Counting Colors

The Counting Game

One Hundred Number Chart

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.

Construction on the New Parmly Billings Library Begins!

Keep an eye on the the progress by checking out this webcam:

Watch Construction Live!

Reading Gives You Super Powers

By Dav Pilkey

Reading Gives You Super Powers

Book Care

How to Take Care of Your Library Books

How To Use Your Library Book Mark

Dear Bitterroot Families

Your children will be attending library weekly during the school year.  Each grade will be bringing home books weekly (kindergarten and first will bring home 1 book a week).  The library books are due back to our library on your child's library day.

Please help us encourage these good habits in the following areas:

• How to handle a book carefully;
• How to keep books in a safe place;
• How to return books to the library on time.

I am looking forward to sharing my love of reading and books with your children.  If you have any questions please call or email me.  

Sincerely,

Mrs. Anderson

Phone:  281-6982
Email: andersonml@billingsschools.org

Story Time with Dwan Edwards, defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills

On Wednesday, June 27th, join, Dwan Edwards, defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills, for story time at the Parmly Billings Library.  He will be reading "You Can Do It" by Tony Dungy and signing autographs.
Bring something to for Mr. Edwards to sign.  Story time starts at 7pm.

Fun Things To Do This Summer

Looking for things to do this summer?  Here is a list below of some ideas...

• Plant something and help it grow
• Read a book from a genre (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, mystery, science fiction) that you normally don't read 
• Start a collection
• Bird Watch and identify birds in your neighborhood (the Public Library has many books on birds)
• Learn to find constellations
• Make a collage with old magazines

Enjoy Your Summer!

I hope everyone has a wonderful summer break!  I will update my blog every couple of weeks.  In the meantime enjoy this site.  Story Online is a great place to listen to a good story...

Story Online

For those of you who like origami...

Check out the link below to this site

Origami Club

This site provides diagrams and video instruction to folding.

Learning LInks

Learning Links

When you read for the fun of it!

Parents and Students Check out the link below for information on the challenge and register to win prizes!

Summer Reading

Tech Time with AudioBoo

A couple of weeks ago 5th grade students were able to learn about audioboo and record some musical pieces that they were practicing for their concert.  Click on these links below to hear their music:

boo 1       boo 5

boo 2

boo 3

boo 4

Audioboo is a program on the internet that you can access and use with your parent permission :)

4th Grade- On line Expedition Game

Click on the link provided below to start your expedition....

Lewis & Clark Expedition Game

4th Grade- Primary Sources and Secondary Sources

What is a primary source? What is a secondary source?  

What is the difference?

Let's find out...

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES

M-5/6 What is Your Technology Personality Type?

Click on the link below and take the brief quiz to discover that your technology personality is....

What is Your Technology Personality Type?

B-5th Grade Author Study

Gary Paulsen- "Hatchet" 

Ernst, Russell.Retrieved from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paulsen.jpg May 2012

Use the following websites to complete your author study:

Random House

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/

Gary Paulsen Author Video: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ADtOjxmRs

Hatchet Book Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwuIto3zPSU&feature=related

Author Profile, Gary Paulsen:

http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/paulsen.html

Weathergrams 2012

Weathergrams is a term that means "weather writing".  Weathergrams are poems of about ten words.  They are hung on bushes, trees or along trails.  They are seasonal and are meant to weather and wither like old leaves.  Students created their poems then transferred their poems to strips of grocery store bags and then decorated them with stamps and ink.  Check these poems out that are hung on our school fence!

Poetry Podcasts

Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com"discoveryschool.com

Listen to poetry podcast performances from our students by clicking on the links below:

If We Walked On Our Hands

What is Purple

My Favorite Word

Turn Off the TV

4th Grade: Having Fun with Poetry

Part One:
Chose one Poetry Class to take from this link on Giggle Poetry
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass.aspx

Write a short poem based on what you learn.  Turn in to green assignment bucket.

Part Two:
Create a poem from an everyday shape at this link...you may print one when you have finished and turn it into the green assignment basket.
Click on the link below to get started...
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/shape/

Part Three:
Explore our poetry books on display and in our non fiction (800s) and pick one for check out this week.

Early World of Learning

During library we learned about butterflies and discovered even more information on
World Book Online's Early World of Learning.  World Book Online is provided to you as a library service that is available 24/7, 365 days a year.

World Book

Click on this link to take you to World Book Online and use the log in information your child brought home to access your "world of learning"

Resources for 7 Wonders of the World Project

Listed below are links to resources for your project:

Phillip Martin c2012

CNN's "Virtual Tour of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World"
http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9705/seven.wonders/

National Geographic Kids "The Original 7 Wonders of the World"
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/history/ancient-wonders/

World Book Online       

Social Studies for Kids: 7 Ancient Wonders
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/7ancientwonders.htm

Zippy Poems... (M-5/6)

Today in class, we will write syllable structured poetry about animals based on the numbers found in specific zip codes...

Can you thinks of a place named for an animal?  Do you know its zip?

These websites can help you find it www.zip-codes.com  and www.50states.com/zipcodes

Some animal suggestions for this project:

 

Celebrate Poetry Month with Shel Silverstein

Here are some of Shel's Poems and Singing:

Crocodile"s Toothache

Jimmy Jet and His TV Set

Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too


Explore Shel's Website at:
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html

Adapted from Rose Park Elementary Library After Hours Blog, Virginia Waples

6th Grade-Seven Wonders of World Assignment

Part One:
View the websites on the webquest for information about about each of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Webquest

Complete the Web Cards:  Two Days of Class April 20th and April 27th

Part Two:
FINAL PROJECT DUE AT END OF CLASS MAY 18TH and presented to class MAY 25TH

Create a one minute advertisement for your Ancient Wonder:
Work together in your assigned group.  Make an advertisement that can be videoed by my camera or the iPads.

The ad should include:


1.  Title "screen" with the name of the Wonder printed.  Spelling & capitalization matters!
2.  Background scenery.   A 12" x 18" picture of the Wonder.  Make it neat & colorful!
3.  Credits "screen" with your sources listed and the first names of your team & their jobs.
4.  A puppet on a craft stick for each team member.  (You may use your photo).
5.  At least eight interesting facts about the Wonder.   Include:
         WHERE it existed
         WHEN it was built 
         WHY it was made
         WHAT made it special
6.  Include an advertising slogan that sells your Wonder as the best!
7.  Include a speaking part for each team member.

You will be graded on the accuracy of your facts, the persuasiveness of your ad, and the elements that make your ad colorful and interesting.

Group Assignments will be made on Friday April 27th during class. 
Project Adapted from Waples and Delaney

April is National Poetry Month

Today during Tech Time you will be writing a shape poem from ReadWriteThink.org...

Click on the link below and print your poem when finished for display in our library!

SHAPE POEM

When you have finished your poem, return to the library blog and explore the National Geographic Link in the right hand column.

On-LIne Safety 4th Grade

Today in class we are going to learn about on-line safety with Garfield and his friends...

Click on the Link Below to WATCH    LEARN    APPLY


On Line Safety

Doing Your Book Review-before recording begins

Things to remember when preparing your review:

Prepare your script and include what you want to share about the book and who you would recommend the book to (example: I would recommend this book to people who like mysteries)

Read through your script two or three times to make sure you can read what you wrote and that it makes sense ( It helps to read it with someone else)

Introduce the book including both the title and author (Remember for our reviews, we do not use our names or school)

Speak clearly and slowly

Practice looking up at the camera (if you are doing video)

It's a BOGO Book Fair!!!

Book Fair

Hours of Operation:

Thursday 3/29-Monday 4/2

8:10 am-8:25 am 

and

12:00-4pm

6th Grade- Exploring Reference Sites

There are many great online reference desks.  Listed below are links to just a few.  Visit each site and using the worksheet given to you in class, evaluate the sites.  What do you like? What would make it better?


http://www.factmonster.com/



The Kids's Space at the Internet Public Library



The Library Spot


Refdesk.com


Yahoo! Reference

The Newbery Award

4th graders!
We will be learning about the history behind the Newberry Award and look at some of the books over the years that have won the award or have been honored...


John Newbery Biography


About the Newbery Medal


The Newbery Terms and Criteria


Have you read any Newbery winner or honor books?  What was the title?  Did you like the book?  Why or why not?

6th Grade- Free On-Line References

For the next few weeks we will be familiarizing ourselves with reliable references that are available on-line to you.  These reference resources can help you with school work or every day information you need to get (and they are open 24 hours/7 days a week)

This week our focus will be on the following two resources:

infoplease

mapquest

Your assignment is...
   
Click on this link to listen to my instructions

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

All about Dr. Seuss from Seussville

Dr. Seuss Video Click Here

No matter what shape…
No matter what size…
Step in the library…
And give your spirit a rise!

Read a Seuss book…
Read one I say…
Then read another…and another…
And another all day.

Read  Seuss books…
From morn until night.
Go to bed late
And get up all bright.

Read them…and read them…
And read them some more.
And you will be happy
As never before.
 
Tony L. Pope, 2007

Explore Seussville

March 2nd is Read Across America

The Cat in the Hat

Read by Justin Bieber

Green Eggs and Ham

Read by Tim Tebow

M-5/6 Morales Science Project

Listed below are some on-line resources that may help you with your project (remember to cite your sources):

Pics4learning.com

GoogleImages

Be sure to click on the thumbnail and go to the original website and cite the photographer or artist

Citation Machine

Rocks and Minerals

Tsunami

Volcanoes

PowerPoint Resources:

these tutorials may offer tips and ideas for you while you are creating your powerpoint

Tutorial 

PowerPoint in the Classroom:  Tutorial

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