Library/ Technology Portfolio
Lots of learning takes place in the library. Here is some of what we are working on...
April 2022
A haiku in process
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Brainstorming for haiku writing
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March 2022
January 2022
Polar Bears in the Snow
After reading the book Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris students camouflaged their own bears in snow or other backgrounds.
After reading the book Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris students camouflaged their own bears in snow or other backgrounds.
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Decemeber 2021
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Hour of Code
Fifth grade students participated in the yearly Hour of Code for the fifth time this past December writing code, using block code, and solving puzzles. A little help from friends goes a long way. K-2 students explored book retelling using codable beebots and story maps. |
May 2021
Computer programmers use skills such as abstraction to create clear directions for a computer to follow. We practiced using abstraction to create an animated digital model of a seed becoming a plant using Brush Ninja.
Room 133 seed story before animation
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April 2021
April was National Poetry Month. Students listened, watched, explored, and read a variety of different poems by a variety of different poets. Our third grade objective was to create an original haiku using a class selected topic and finding inspiration in our list of brainstormed words and ideas. Our topic in this class was...
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November 2020
Our digital learning and library classes are held virtually this school year. We still show some great work. Our Objective: using creativity and critical thinking build a bridge that hold a weight.
School supplies make strong bridges
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Stranger Things bridge
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Parts of A Books: students in K-2 learned to list the attributes of a common object, for example, cars have a color, type (e.g., pickup, van, sedan), number of seats, etc.
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Using their Seesaw accounts, students drag and drop the parts of the book to the correct place in the image.
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September/ October 2019
Kindergarten drew themselves following one of the three rules to safe while online.
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1st grade demonstrates understanding the difference between fiction and nonfiction books in the library.
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K, 1, and 2 identified the parts of a book including title, author, spine, cover and pages.
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May 2019
Pk-5 was busy working on many wonderful projects and activities the last several months.
STEAM in Second Grade
How do we examine data for information? First, you create the data. Second grade worked in groups to plan, build, assess, and rebuild towers to achieve maximum height. They carefully tracked their data and measurements. Next we learned to create a bar graph to represent our data and analyze our findings. |
Fourth and fifth grade examined and analyzed primary source material in an effort to understand how we learn from different types of sources and what we can learn from these sources
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First graders interviewed each other as a way to acquire information. These interviews are now turning into digital " All About Me" biography slides.
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December 2018
Prek and Kindergarten identify the basic parts of a book
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October 2018
PreK, Kindergarten and 1st Grade learn about the difference between fiction and nonfiction books. A Frankencrayon to go with our fictional crayon story with the same title.
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September 2018
Book Doctors are in demand so second grade students demonstrate knowledge of the do's and don't for caring for books.
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February 2018
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Mrs. Richardson's class finished their study on the author Jan Brett. Our last book was The Mitten. Students recalled the order the animals went into the mitten making a collage of animals.
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First grade learned about biographies and then took turns interviewing a classmate. Students will write an illustrate a short biography page about their classmate.
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Kindergarten discussed characters and used pictures to describe action in the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
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