The last library competition of the year was an estimation contest. Participants had to guess how many plastic caps were in the jug. There were a total of 243 caps and sixth grader Cody guessed the exact amount! How fitting that Cody should win the last contest of the year and his last contest at CJL.
Ocean explorations
Mrs. McCall’s students are learning about ocean animals. During their library visit this week, Mrs. Miliano introduced the online animal database PebbleGo. Together the children learned about some ocean animals by listening to short informational articles being read aloud and by viewing the brief videos of animals in action. Once they returned to their classroom, the children continued to use the database to learn about more ocean animals.
Watch out for those dino-snores!
Since Friday was a Teacher Workshop Day, only the Pink, Yellow, and Green Rooms had library this week. They continued their dinosaur unit with a repetition of the rhyme “Five Little Dinosaurs Jumping on the Bed” and two new stories, Dinosnores by Kelly DiPucchio and How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen. Afterwards, the children colored dinosaurs for stick puppets. They will use the puppets to act out the “Jumping on the Bed” rhyme during their next visit.
Outfoxed again?
The first graders continue their fox unit. This week they performed the picture book Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox as Readers Theatre. Each student took the part of one of the farm animals in the story and read its lines. Mrs. Miliano read a second fox story, Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack. Once again, those sly ol’ foxes got outfoxed!
Ahoy, maties!
Miss Mallon’s class visited the library for its last time as second graders. After a brief introduction to pirates through the book How I Became a Pirate by Melissa Long, the students played a group math game called “Pirate Treasure.” Then they made pirate ships out of milk cartons and set sail for summer of read