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HAPPY SUMMER READING! A BOOK IS A GREAT COMPANION AT HOME, ON THE ROAD, or WHEREVER YOU FIND YOURSELF. LOVE YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HAVE FUN!
May 23rd - To wrap up the year we did Speed Dating With Books. Piles of books were all over the library and kids had just a few minutes at each table to make the acquaintance of books they might like to spend time with over the summer. They captured the covers with their iPads so they could remember their interests and get them at the public library or a bookstore. And a few took books home to speed read and return by next week.
May 9th - we had a class where we looked at the various databases the SSFS library has purchased to help with student research. For those looking for information about states we have several that are very useful. Grolier has a product called America the Beautiful, In addition to the country information Proquest's Culturegrams offers, they have an edition with facts and figures about states.
The online version of the World Book Encyclopedia has a long article about each state as will. Several other databases in our collection might be useful as well. The library homepage is the way to access all these resources. Log in to the Research Databases page by clicking the link on the left hand menu and logging in with your personal school login, or with the generic login ssfs and password friends.
AND THE WINNER IS ----Dog vs. Cat by Chris Gall, which won at SSFS, too. Link to full state-wide results. Go here to see the full SSFS results
April 25 - today was the last day votes could be submitted to the Black-eyed Susan committee to be counted in the state-wide contest. We added a few more titles to consider:
And then we voted. In 4A the winner was Dog VS. Cat and 4B put The Tooth Fairy Wars in first place.
April 11 - we continued reading Black-eyed Susan picture books so we could be ready to vote later this month. Students chose what they wanted to hear next, so the classes didn't hear all the same titles - here are the ones we read:
It is a very diverse group of fiction and non-fiction selections this year.
March 29th - The beest made it to Ghana!We are still collecting books for the actual library we are sending over. In class we started reading the Black-eyed Susan nominees for the picture book award and pointed out the titles in the 4-6 grade category and the graphic novels for this year. If you read three titles in the 2 latter categories you qualify to vote for your favorite. We will all read enough in class to vote for our favorite picture book. We started with Peanut Butter and Cupcake by Terry Borders and Carnivores by Aaron Reynolds and Dan Santat.
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February 22nd - We talked a bit more about Books Change Lives and shared the story of The Librarian of Basra by Jeannette Winter. It is a story about how one person can make a difference in even the most difficult of circumstances. Students were paired up and filmed short pieces about books that have changed their lives.
February 8th - We talked about Books Change Lives, our 2016 reading program. Then we spent time making sure everyone could navigate to the library's collection of research databases, focusing on the ones that have particularly good information for decades research. SIRS has a database just for that, as well as more general sources. Pop Culture Universe also has a section to look at their information through the lens of twentieth century decades. If for some reason your own login doesn't work to access the password protected page, remember the generic login is username: ssfs and password: friends. It all begins at the library homepage, your research and information portal.
January 11th - We caught up a bit since it has been so long. Following the beginning of the decades study and the electricity science unit we read books that related to those topics. Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore created libraries for children by Jan Pinborough, illustrated by Debby Atwell. Anne Carroll Moore worked all through the end of the 1800's into the twentieth century transforming the world of libraries to include children. She had "thoughts of her own" and made her dreams come true. What Color is my World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's story of some contemporary kids learning some history that includes the stories of many black scientists. It is illustrated by Ben Boos. We read about Lewis Howard Latimer inventor, writer and Renaissance man and his work around the invention and promotion of electric power and lights.
December 14th - We listened to a book Elizabeth was given over the weekend and wrote our own statements completing the sentence "If I were a book...." The simple and terrific picture book of the same name was written by the Brazilian father and son team Jose Jorge Letria and Juan Letria. We started talking about the spring reading program called Books Change Lives during which we will be collecting books for a library in Ghana.
WELCOME TO THE 2015-16 SCHOOL YEAR!
What we are reading and doing:
We opened the Black-eyed Susan season with this tale of Lena Blackburne and his mud that changed the game of baseball. You can read this as an ebook by clicking on the link in the library catalog, or by going directly to Mackinvia and entering our school, the login - ssfs and the password - friends. Currently, we have 50 ebooks on this platform, but we will continue to add things.
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| Log you minutes so we can fly the beest and the books to Nkwanta, Ghana! |
February 8th - We talked about Books Change Lives, our 2016 reading program. Then we spent time making sure everyone could navigate to the library's collection of research databases, focusing on the ones that have particularly good information for decades research. SIRS has a database just for that, as well as more general sources. Pop Culture Universe also has a section to look at their information through the lens of twentieth century decades. If for some reason your own login doesn't work to access the password protected page, remember the generic login is username: ssfs and password: friends. It all begins at the library homepage, your research and information portal.
January 11th - We caught up a bit since it has been so long. Following the beginning of the decades study and the electricity science unit we read books that related to those topics. Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore created libraries for children by Jan Pinborough, illustrated by Debby Atwell. Anne Carroll Moore worked all through the end of the 1800's into the twentieth century transforming the world of libraries to include children. She had "thoughts of her own" and made her dreams come true. What Color is my World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's story of some contemporary kids learning some history that includes the stories of many black scientists. It is illustrated by Ben Boos. We read about Lewis Howard Latimer inventor, writer and Renaissance man and his work around the invention and promotion of electric power and lights.
December 14th - We listened to a book Elizabeth was given over the weekend and wrote our own statements completing the sentence "If I were a book...." The simple and terrific picture book of the same name was written by the Brazilian father and son team Jose Jorge Letria and Juan Letria. We started talking about the spring reading program called Books Change Lives during which we will be collecting books for a library in Ghana.
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| "I would help anchor you to your truest self." |
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| November 16th - We talked a bit about Brain Hive experiences we have had and went on to look at another digital resource available to SSFS students. Flipster is a digital magazine delivery system from EBSCO. We have subscribed to 15 titles this year, including several from the Cricket publishing group. Each student navigated to an issue and read an article to test the system out. FAQ's are answered here. |
October 19th - We explored the eBook provider, BrainHive, which gives us access to nearly 9,000 titles from PK-12th grade. For searching and reading on iPads or iPhones there is an app - find it at the app store. The reader part is great, but searching works better at the website or through our library catalog. To register, enter the account number 4290097586, your username (comprised of the first five letters of your last name and the first two of you first name) and the password friends. Check the box that says," remember you account number?". Login to the browser version with the same login and password.
October 5 - We explored the library catalog (get there from the library page and the "Search the catalog" link) to see what books we have about Native Americans. We also looked at the research databases the school subscribes to, talking about the ones that would be good for 4th grade research. They are all available from the password protected link on the library page. You can log in as yourself or with the generic username: ssfs and password: friends. I always try to make time for books and we enjoyed Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library, by Barb Rosenstock , illustrated by John O'Brien, before checking out books.
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| One of his famous quotes is, "I cannot live without books |
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September 21st - FINALLY we had a gold Monday and 4th grade library time. We had a tour of the library, talked about expectations and made our shelf markers for the year. It makes the librarian's heart is happy that one quarter of the kids answered the question -What do you like to do? with "Read". Maybe it was the setting. Students contributed titles to the What did you read this summer bulletin board. We read selections from Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer imaging what a different life they were leading in the late nineteen thirties. It is the non-fiction companion to the picture book That Book Woman by Heather Henson.
WELCOME TO THE 2015-16 SCHOOL YEAR!
What we are reading and doing:
We meet next in two weeks on October 5th.
4TH GRADE LIBRARY TIME IS GOLD WEEK MONDAYS (and we will choose a make-up time for weeks without Mondays): 4B 1:30-2:15 AND 4A 2:15-3:00
What did you read this summer? Are you inspired by William Kamkwamba?
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We opened the Black-eyed Susan season with this tale of Lena Blackburne and his mud that changed the game of baseball. You can read this as an ebook by clicking on the link in the library catalog, or by going directly to Mackinvia and entering our school, the login - ssfs and the password - friends. Currently, we have 50 ebooks on this platform, but we will continue to add things. 
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