Learning in the Library

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Thank you!

In early February, Mrs. McCall’s class made valentines for the residents of the Lodges, an assisted living facility in Springvale.  This week the children received a lovely thank you note from the Director of Activities expressing the residents’ appreciation.

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Dental health storytime

Mrs. McCall’s class recognized National Children’s Dental Health Month with a tooth storytime.  The children first listened to What If You Had Animal Teeth? by Sandra Markle.   This book combines information about twelve different animals and how they use their teeth with imaginative scenarios of children who have those animal teeth.  In the end, we learn that human teeth suit us best.  The second story was a silly cumulative tale, Moose’s Loose Tooth by Jacqueline A. Clarke.  In this funny story a group of animals help pull Moose’s loose tooth out only to have Elephant swallow it by mistake!  That night Moose puts Elephant under his pillow so the Tooth Fairy will still be able to find his tooth.  The happy ending leaves Elephant wanting a loose tusk.  The children enjoyed both books.

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Kindergartners earn recognition

Mrs. Carlisle’s Green Room Friends and Mrs. Emery’s Pink Room Friends finished filling their second book return charts this week!  Each of the 100 stickers on a chart represents a returned library book.  The kindergartners received two winter foam stickers as a reward for their efforts.  Continue being responsible library users, Green and Pink Room Friends!

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Checking in on the Chickadee Award program

This week most of the kindergartners, Mrs. Bemis’ first graders, and all of the second graders enjoyed the Chickadee Award nominee Monkey: A Trickster Tale from India by Gerald McDermott.  After the story, the students made the story’s characters out of construction paper.  The kindergartners made monkey faces and the first graders made crocodiles.

The first graders listened to All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel by Dan Yaccarino.  After hearing this true story of a little shovel being passed down from generation to generation, the students visited the places mentioned in the story via Google Earth.

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Valentine contest

This week’s contest had a Valentine’s Day theme.  A jar was filled with 309 conversation hearts.  Students were asked to estimate the number of candies in the jar.  The closest estimate was made by third grader Riley.  She won the pink and red singing gorilla pictured in this post.

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