MES Library Blog

Water is Life Project We are jumping in with both feet into this school-wide Water is Life Celebration and having a great time researching wondering, reading books, and experimenting with water.  Ms. Jenny is doing an amazing job finding new ways to explore the water.   5/6 Grade This was a busy month for library classes.  Making a bulletin board for our water wondering, thank you Sofia, Aiden, and  Leilah   sharing some great ways to save water, thank you Addie and Maxine and creating projects to share like this Scratch presentation  great job Harper! And working with their teachers to help them explore their passion projects. And enjoying a fun Friday of games on a Thursday! 3/4 Grade As part of their State projects this year I am helping them create an interactive map.  1/2 Grade Water wondering, Internation Women's Month - Read aloud about Elizabeth Cotton - a musician who played her guitar upside down and Emily Roebling who helped build the ...

 Thank you to everyone who shopped at the bookfair this year, the kids were so excited to see it return! We are looking forward to the Water is Life school-wide project for the next 4 weeks.  I will be reading books about water next week and answering some wonderings about water. 

 January in the Library In Library classes we talked about Martin Luther King Day - Who was Martin Luther King?  Checked out our favorite books to read on these long winter nights.   5/6 We continue to share books we are reading and enjoying. And I brought back First Chapter Friday. We are adding our names to the Golden Dome bulletin board, I am so proud of how many books are getting read this year.  We continue to strengthen our digital citizenship skills.  And we love doing breakout games! 3/4 We are reading all the Red Clover Nominees. Adding our names to the Golden Dome bulletin board. We learned about some inventors in our Breakout Game. And strengthen our digital citizenship skills. Congratulations to Isla for being the first to Breakout! 1/2 We read stories about winter and Broke out of "Winter is Snow Fun".  The students are getting better at solving these games.  And I am helping students with their animal name research projects.  Ki...

 December in the Library Fifth and Six Graders Enjoyed taking a tour of Holidays Around the World and solving the Breakout box. Great Job everyone! Third and Fourth-grade students explored the differences between Fiction and Non-Fiction books.  They then had a chance to do a Breakout box challenge.  Two groups successfully broke out of the box. Congratulations to them! First and Second-grade students worked on winter-themed stations - Animal Track match, Bingo, winter e-books, chrome tablets winter STEM bitmoji room, legos, and lock of the day Breakout puzzles and of course, are checking out books! Kindergarten students also did winter stations, Animal Track match, Bingo, winter e-books, chrome tablets winter STEM bitmoji room. They are learning to solve some of the locks of the days in Breakout  and of course, are checking out books!

This week in Library Class We had a visit from Snowbuster We enjoyed a new technology tool called Breakout New Book in the Library New books this month include some hunting and fishing books, books about construction vehicles, books about our government and I continue to add to our Social Justice collection and increase a diverse selection of books.  November's Featured Series is  You Choose Books Put readers in the driver's seat with these interactive books! YOU CHOOSE the path you take and what you do next. Readers will explore multiple perspectives and learn for themselves the value of seeing a story from many points of view. These books include nonfiction history books, mythological creatures, and fairytales. November is NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH I have displayed many books about Indigenous people around the library for students to check out. We read some great stories and watch some awesome dances  Books returned but not Library Books