Thursday, December 17, 2015

Elementary Library

We made it!!  I cannot believe it is the end of the first semester of the school year!

This week in the library...

PS2 - We read Little Miss Spider's Christmas Wish, Mouse's First Christmas and Pete the Cat Saves Christmas.

PS3 - We read Merry Christmas Dear Dragon, Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear, and Pete the Cat Saves Christmas.

PK4 - We read The Little Red Elf, Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear, and Froggy's Best Christmas.

Kindergarten - We read Santa's Big Sneeze then colored a picture of Santa with a cold.

First Grade - did not come to library

Second Grade - did not come to library

Third Grade - We read Silver Packages and The New Improved Santa.

Fourth Grade - We watched the video Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and safe New Year.

Friday, December 4, 2015

Elementary Library

This Week in the Library...

PS2 - We read It's Christmas David, Turtle and Snake and the Christmas Tree, and D.W.'s Perfect Present.

PS3 - We read The Bear Santa Forgot, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, and D.W.'s Perfect Present.

PK4 - We watched the Book Fair Preview.

Kindergarten - We watched the Book Fair Preview.

First Grade - We watched the Book Fair Preview.

Second Grade - We watched the Book Fair Preview.

Third Grade - We watched the Book Fair Preview.

Fourth Grade - We watched the Book Fair Preview.

Please come shop the Book Fair starting tonight (Friday, Dec. 4th) 4:00-5:30 before the Movie Night.  Next week, Dec. 7th-11th, 7:30-3:30.  Friday, Dec. 11th we will be closing at 10:00am.

Thank you!

4th Grade Computers

The 4th grade class has been so very busy these past few weeks.  We have completed the keyboarding lessons that we began the first week of August.  Having been introduced to the complete keyboard through a series of 14 lessons has taken almost this entire semester. There will be continued keyboarding practice at the beginning of every class...accuracy, not speed is what I appreciate from these students....I remind them that this is a lifelong skill that will guide them throughout their educational career and into their professional lives.

The students have also prepared a Google slide presentation about themselves and their families.  I remind them of how their interest have changed since kindergarten, so I enjoy learning about their current interest. The students are giving their presentations in front of their peers---a good learning experience.

Also, the 4th graders are participating in 'coding.'  This is basically computer programming. It is amazing how quickly the students learn this technique...and are having such fun.  I would expect that the students will be doing this over Christmas break.

I so enjoy the 4th graders.

It is unbelievable that this semester is almost over...

Have a wonderful Christmas break.

Mrs. Speck

Pre-School-www.sesamestreet.org/Elmo/Dress-up/Coloring
Pre-Kindergarten-www.sesamestreet.org/Elmo/ABC Puzzles/Train Track Engineers
Kindergarten-www.abcya.com/Holiday/Christmas
1st Grade-Google Drawing-Christmas picture
2nd Grade-Google Drawing-God's Christmas Tree
3rd Grade-www.abcya.com/3rd Grade/Holiday
4th Grade-Google slides