Watching our letter B song video. | Our Kinder stars began letter stations during their library time this week. Letter stations are intended to help reinforce letter recognition and their corresponding sounds, which is a skill that Kinders work on as part of our Reading Street curriculum. This week, we began with A, B, C, and D. Each station begins with a short song video for students to watch and see examples of words that start with each letter. After the video, students can choose whether they would like to read, write, or draw for that letter. Take a look below at some of their time spent at our letter stations this week! From now until November, we will continue spending each week with the next four letters in the alphabet until we reach the end. |
Reading some of our A, C, and D letter station books about apples, cars, and dragons. Writing and drawing at our letter A and B stations - apples, bananas, boats, and bears.
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This week, our 3rd-5th grade students learned about our 2017-2018 William Allen White book nominees and theme. More information is located in the William Allen White tab towards the top of the page. Please remember that participation is not a requirement. Students who would like to be able to vote come mid-April, need to have the minimum amount of books read by that time.
During this past week, our 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Bobcats all completed lessons tied to internet safety. These lessons are taught district-wide and become increasing important as students use more and more technology at school and at home.
Our 1st grade lesson referred to stop light colors as a way to determine appropriate websites. Green light sites are just right for kids their age, have fun things to do and see, use words they can understand, and do not let students talk with other people. Yellow light websites are those which students should ask permission before using because they may ask for student information or allow them to talk to other users. Red light websites are not appropriate for kids their age and may contain words or pictures meant for big kids or adults and let them talk with anyone online. Oftentimes, 1st graders may come across a red light website on accident. 3rd graders practiced identifying the difference between personal and private information. While personal information includes our favorites or general information, private information would be things like their full name, address, phone number, passwords, etc., which could be harmful if shared online with others. Students also practiced creating a safe profile about themselves so that they would be prepared and know how to create a safe profile later down the road. Safely Talking Online was our 4th grade topic. It placed a large emphasis on reviewing personal vs. private information and reminding students the difference between face-to-face friends and online friends. Since most people online are really strangers (and not face-to-face friends), we practiced how to safely respond to questions from other people online that might be looking for their private information. 5th grade Bobcats completed a lesson which focused on Social Networks (Social Media) and Cyberbullying. We discussed how to safely take part on social media so that later when they are old enough to do so, they have the knowledge on how to in an appropriate way. We also talked about how and why cyberbullying may take place and ways to handle cyberbullying. Most of these grades will complete an additional internet safety lesson sometime this fall. Our Kinder and 2nd grade students will also be taking part in internet safety lessons as well. These past two weeks, our Kinder Stars have been learning how to be kind to our books with the idea that "Books are like Babies". Last week during their first (ever) Langston Hughes library visit, we spent our time talking about how books are just like babies using a doll and other various props. Here are the connections we made...
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CategoriesJenny WilliamsAfter 8 years in the classroom, I'm very eager and excited to be in my 5th year as Library Media Specialist in the Learning Commons of Langston Hughes! Archives
April 2019
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