Book Fair & Other Happenings

This upcoming week is Conference Week, which means it is Book Fair time again!  Yea! We'll be hosting the Book Fair in the Library, so come on by next week to enjoy the fine offerings from Scholastic with the "Read Around the World" theme, plus much more.  Our wonderful PTSA runs this event for our school and will be operating the fair, with volunteer help, Monday- Friday.  The hours are Monday- Friday 7:45- 8:15 am & Monday-Thursday 11:45 am- 3 pm.  There will also be a PJ Storytime on Wednesday, October 21st, from 6-7 pm. Clifford will be in attendance, just as he was on opening day!  We love our PTSA volunteers and appreciate that they help us to buy books for the library with this Book Fair.  :) 

In other news, this week we explored Fairy Tales in 1st grade again, delving deeper into the elements of fairy tales and we learned that all of the Fairy Tales in the library live in the same section- the 398.2's!  Here are some students checking out the Fairy Tales... I've posted no faces to protect the privacy of our students.

Here we have some concealed Kinders acting out one of the Nursery Rhymes we have been studying, "I'm a Little Teapot."  Can you spot those handles and spouts?  :) We spent some time coloring the rhyming words red in the little books we took home featuring this rhyme.  We also began talking about proper book care this week and will begin checking out with our Kindergarten classes very soon!

And, as promised, here is me in all my royal regalia for the launch of the fairy tale unit!  It is good to be queen.  The queen says, "Don't forget to join us in the library for the Book Fair!  Your purchases help buy books for the library!"

Fairy Tales and Mysteries

I am so sorry I forgot to get a picture of me in my Queen of Hearts costume for the launch of our fairy tale unit in 1st grade.  I still have 2 classes to wear it for though, so there might still be a photo to behold!  We looked at the elements of a fairy tale, which we posted and recorded on a chart, read Jack and the Beanstalk and looked at all the fairy tale elements that fit the story. We looked for things like beginning or ending with special words (like "Once upon a time" or "...and they lived happily ever after"), magic, things happening in 3's or 7's, the presence of royalty or a castle, and a good and an evil character. We met our learning target for the week, which is posted to the right.  :)

I did remember to get a shot in my sleuth suit for the launch of 2nd grade's mystery unit!  We read Octavius Bloom and the House of Doom by Eric Brooks and looked which of the "typical" plots of a mystery fit this story.  Student pairs picked the mystery plot they thought fit best and shared evidence from the story to support their answer.