Whether we apply math skills in a new game format, practice letter-sound recognition, or explore augmented reality, we are learning with our iPads in a purposeful way and loving it! Fifth Graders are studying the Middle Ages as they prepare for a field trip to Medieval Times. After reading Saint George and the Dragon, a […]
Prekindergarten students are delightful people. They enjoy singing, dramatizing, listening to stories , asking questions, answering questions, and participating in any and all library activities. After dramatizing the story of The Three Little Pigs, students cut out story pictures and retold the story after sequencing the events.
Our Scholastic Book Fair is a reading event that brings the books kids want to read right into our school. It’s a wonderful selection of engaging and affordable books for every reading level. Please make plans to visit our Book Fair and be involved in shaping your child’s reading habits. Book Fair dates: November 10, […]
Mrs. England and Mrs Ponce’s fourth graders presented Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears during the “Great Book Week” chapel at the Lower school. In the story, Mosquito tells such a ridiculous lie that Iguana plugs up his ears so that he won’t hear any more nonsense from Mosquito. When Iguana covers his ears he does […]
Classes in the library are learning about Lois Ehlert and a few of her amazing books such as Color Farm, Rrralph, and The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life. The author and artist is known for her imaginative use of colors, shapes, and collage materials as she creates her books. Students then created their own designs and […]
Mrs. Bell’s Prekindergarten students drew pigs as a response to the story, If you Give a Pig a Pancake, by Laura Numeroff. We also learned about the ingredients in pancakes and where some of the ingredients really originate such as: eggs, milk, butter, and maple syrup.
Congratulations to Cole, Aiden, Blake, Emma, and Brooklynn. These students are officially smarter because they read all summer long and turned in completed reading logs to Ila England, Lower School librarian. Each student received a book full of stickers with reading and drawing activities.
How Many Hundreds of Books Can be Found in the Lower School Library? Students and several adults including Travis Albea had fairly close estimates but no one guessed the correct answer of 67 hundreds, or to be exact, 6,732 books. The top four winners of the contest with the closest answers were Skylar Anthony, Mr.Travis Albea, […]
Second through fifth grade students are learning about the Dewey Decimal System by completing a scavenger hunt in the library this week! Students learn how to locate fiction and nonfiction books
During library class, Mrs. Bell’s prekindergarten students listened to A Christmas Wish for Corduroy, by Don Freeman. In the story we learn that little bear, Corduroy, decides he must find new clothes to wear to meet Santa even though real bears do not need clothes. Students drew Corduroy in his new clothes so he could […]
We are excited about our upcoming Scholastic Book Fair at the Lower School. The book fair is a reading event that brings to school the books kids want to read. The fair has a wonderful selection of engaging and affordable books for every reading level. Please make plans to visit our Book Fair and be involved […]
A group of very motivated fifth graders meet weekly to eat snacks and discuss the current book club selection, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. Anna Marie Ward, the originator of the club, along with her officers: Josie Travis and Mia Fair, named the club “Between the Pages”. These young ladies helped publicize and organize the club, […]