The theme of a recent storytime for Mrs. McCall’s students was shapes. The children practiced identifying the shapes used to make farm animals in the book Color Farm by Lois Ehlert. The story was followed by a game of Shape Memory. Then the students glued shapes to blank Bingo boards. They will use the game boards to review shapes next time they visit the library.
Mrs. McCall’s class explores shapes
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On display
Miss Kimball’s second graders recently researched dinosaurs for a district assessment. They used the information they learned to create dinosaur books. They also made models of their dinosaurs. The display of their hard work is a big hit in the library!
And the winner is…
The Chickadee Award Committee has announced the winner of Maine’s 2008-2009 children’s choice award. The winner is My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socksby Hanoch Piven! Of the 12,817 Maine children who participated in this year’s program, My Dog received 2,997 votes. The second and third place winners are Bob and Otto and The End respectively. All winners are CJL’s top choices, too, but not in the same order.
Jelly bean estimation contest
The results of last week’s library competition are in! There were 167 jelly beans in the estimation jar. The closest estimate was 162 and it was made by two students: second grader Jennifer and fourth grader Nicholas. Nicholas chose the jelly beans for his prize and Jennifer selected the pink poodle Shining Star. Congratulations to both winners!
April Fool’s Day inspires contest
Q: What is the tallest building in Springvale?
A: It’s the library-it has the most stories!
That is one of the five riddles and answers that students had to match in last week’s April Fool’s Day contest. There is one winner from each grade level that entered the contest. The winners include second grader Cristian, third grader Teaghan, fifth grader Devin, and sixth grader Timmy. Congratulations, winners!