by mrsmiliano
This week three classes listened to their last Chickadee Award nominee. Mrs. Dillane’s Yellow Room friends heard Perfect Square by Michael Hall. Mrs. Emery’s Pink Room friends had an extra library time to make up for a missed class. They listened to The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps by Jeannette Winter. Mrs. Ball’s second graders listened to Marshall Armstrong is New to our School by David Mackintosh.
All the K-2 students finished voting for their favorite Chickadee Award book this week. The kindergartners and first graders voted by circling their choice in their Chickadee Award booklets. (Then they got to take their booklets home to share with their families.) The second graders used a ballot with the book covers from all ten choices. Two hundred twenty-seven students voted and their overwhelming favorite is Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw. It received 123 votes! Our voting results have been sent to the Chickadee Award Committee along with those from schools across Maine. Soon we will know which book earns Maine Children’s Choice Award. Stay tuned!
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade K Mrs. Margoles' class
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Since the kindergartners who visit the library on Monday had already voted for their favorite Chickadee Award nominee, they had a different library lesson from the other kindergartners. Their lesson started with an introduction to this year’s five Caldecott Honor books and the Caldecott Medal winner. The Honor books are Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen, One Cool Friend by Maine author Toni Buzzeo and illustrated by David Small, Green written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue and illustrated 
by Pamela Zagarenski, and Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown. Mrs. Miliano read Creepy Carrots and then the 2013 Caldecott Medal winner, This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen. After the stories, the children hats for paper fish.
Grade K
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S
ome of the students who visit the library before the start of the school day chose to participate in another service project for our friends at The Lodges, the assisted living facility in Springvale. The students made miniature Easter cards. They put a card, along with a Hershey Kiss, in a plastic egg. Mrs. M. made grass holders for the eggs. We hope our creations help to brighten the residents’ holiday.
CJL News
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This week’s competition was a pentomino puzzle. (Pentominoes are a set of 12 puzzle pieces. Each piece is made up of five squares connected along their edges. See the photo.) Students had to use different pentominoes to solve the same puzzle twice. All papers with correctly solved puzzles were entered in a drawing for a calculator. The lucky pentomino puzzler is fourth grader Madeline.
Grade 4 Library Contests
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Rabbits were the theme of storytime for Mrs. McCall’s class again this week. First the children listened to a new book, Bunnies on Ice by Johanna Wright. When asked if it is an information book or a story, they quickly responded that it is a story. After all, bunnies don’t wear ice skates! The 
second book was A Baby Rabbit Story by Jeni Wittrock. The photographs in this book helped to cue the children that it is an information book.
After selecting their new library books, the children made Easter cards for adults in the school. They each wrote a greeting on a paper 
rabbit and decorated a paper basket with dot paint. When the paint dried, the children tucked their rabbits into the baskets. The special cards are sure to be appreciated by staff members.
Mrs McCalls class
