The Library Wall of Fame has grown to include a total of 16 classes. The following classes earned a spot on the Wall this week: Mrs. Dupere, Mrs. Smith, and Mrs. Sylvestre’s kindergartners; Mrs. Abell’s first graders; Mrs. Gillis’ second graders; Mrs. Paradis and Mrs. Gallagher’s fourth graders; Mrs. Bradbury and Ms. Oakes’ fifth graders; and Miss Spinney and Mrs. Brown’s sixth graders. Congratulations, students!
Wall of Fame grows!
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Library Wall of Fame
At the end of every school year, the students are challenged to return all their borrowed library books. When everyone in a class meets that challenge, the class is featured on the Library Wall of Fame. So far, five classes are proudly listed on the Wall of Fame. They are Mrs. McCall’s class, Mrs. Cote’s first graders, Mrs. Carlisle’s kindergartners, Mrs. Sturtevant’s second graders, and Mrs. Meehan’s fifth graders. Which class will be next?
Summer reading ahead!
We know the end of the school year is in sight when our favorite children’s librarian from Springvale Public Library (SPL) visits our school! Mrs. Sheila Dube spent Thursday with us, telling us about the summer reading program at Springvale Public Library. This year’s theme is “Reading Olympics.” Students can sign up for the reading fun the day school gets out (June 13th). For more information, visit SPL in person or check out their website. Thanks for your visit, Miss Sheila!
Breakout!
Several more classes had the opportunity to experience a “Breakout” this week. Mrs. Abell and Mrs. Bemis’ first graders pretended to be trapped in the library by “The Swamp,” the mean substitute teacher from Miss Nelson is Missing! by 
Harry Allard and James Marshall. They had to solve three problems to breakout. Besides creative problem-solving and working together, the students used their knowledge of nouns to unlock the locks and get the bookmarks hidden in the box.
Mrs. Sturtevant’s second graders participated in the Life Cycles Breakout. Although they ran out of time before solving all three problems that locked the box, they did apply their knowledge of life cycles to open two of the locks.
Mrs. Gallagher and Mrs. LaPointe’s fourth graders participated in the Big6 Breakout which served as a review of research skills taught this year. They had to select best sources for specific information questions, use QR codes to identify books to find and use the index to locate information within them, find the most current book of specific topics, and use sources to locate specific information. When Mrs. Gallagher’s class did the Breakout, they were close to solving all the problems but ran out of time. Mrs. LaPointe joined her students in solving the six problems so they managed to open the locked box with minutes to spare!
Cycle of life
Mrs. Sturtevant’s second graders read and discussed the ebook Life Cycles by Michael Elsohn Ross during their library visit last week. The book introduces the life cycle of sunflowers, mushrooms, and grasshoppers.
Mrs. Gillis, Miss Mallon, and Mrs. Sullivan’s second graders all participated in a Life Cycles Breakout last week. (Mrs. Sturtevant’s class will do this next week.) The students had to solve three problems to get the codes to unlock three locks that kept the toolbox shut. For one task, they had to find 20 animals (plastic or Beanie Babies) around the library and sort them into categories (egg-layers and born live). In another puzzle, they had to match photos and names of a stage in the life cycle of salmon (fry), grasshopper (nymph), whale (calf), and turtle (hatchling). The third problem asked them to find sign with life cycle words on them. They had to use certain highlighted letters in the life cycle words to find the secret location of the key to the padlock. All of the tasks took teamwork to solve. Mrs. Gillis and Mrs. Sullivan’s classes were able to “breakout” within the allotted 30 minutes so the students earned the bookmarks inside the toolbox.