The Book Fair is coming!
I have been given the opportunity to be responsible for the book fairs this year. I am excited to be able to get even more books into the hands of our students! This week we will be putting the flyers into your mailboxes so that you can pass them out on Monday, October 6th! Also, I will be putting "Teacher Wish List" forms into your box. Sometime during, or even before conferences, come down and choose what books you would like and write them on the forms. Many families like to purchase books for your classroom. The theme is Egyptian this year and it will be a "Cool Place to discover Hot books!" (No, I didn't make that up, it comes from Scholastic!)
In Kindergarten, I have some choices for you, for your read aloud: (please respond to my email with your choice- thanks!)
- Fire! Fire! by Gail Gibbons
- A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry
- Martha Doesn't Say Sorry (to go with Second Step)
In technology we will continue to use Book Flix! This program we were able to get through Scholastic Book Fair money! It is a great program that pairs a fiction video of a book, and a non-fiction book on the same subject. For example, Click, Clack, Moo! is the video, and the book is about dairy cows. If you want to use it in your classroom, the user name is vdelc and the password is bookflix. If you notice that it is running slowly, it may because too many people are using it at once. It is a streaming video! The kids who have used it seem to like it!
Also in technology news, WiggleWorks is coming. I take the time to show the kids how to use each part of WiggleWorks, even the part where they can read to the computer (that's why we have microphones in the Media Center!) I need your help with this one! Please enter your students names into the program under your class so that when we start it will be all ready for them! I will add the classes, so you can add the names and the reading levels for your students. If you are having difficulty with this, please ask me, I would love to help! Thanks!
For PreK this week I will read either, Daisy the Fire Cow or My Truck is Stuck. Please let me know if you won't be coming to library because of the Fire Safety Fair. Thanks!
Our Library will be getting a new look! On Friday, I will begin to pull all of our Spanish books and put them in their own section. This is a direction that the entire district is taking so that we can match what they do at the Woodstock Public Library. I will make a Bilingual section as well. Hopefully this will make it easier for everyone to find those Spanish and Bilingual books!
Since we have gotten such a positive response to the t-shirts, I will be putting in a new order. The order forms should be here this week!
Have a great week!
I hope you all have been enjoying the beautiful fall weather this weekend!
It has come to my attention that more people would like Dierzen staff t-shirts. I need to know how many people are interested in order to make it worthwhile for an order. They may be a bit more expensive because our supplier needs to remake the screens. Please let me know if you are interested!
This week in the Media Center we are almost done doing the CPAA testing! Please let me, or Christie Brown know if you have students that still need to be tested.
In Kindergarten this week, the Dual Language classes will be hearing Nico and Lola, Kindness shared between a boy and a dog. The mono-lingual classes will hear either The Gingerbread Man Gets Lost, or Sometimes I Feel Silly! If you have a preference for either of these, please let me know! In technology, they will either do Jolly Phonics Fun! on the Smartboard, or will learn how to use our new program, BookFlix. BookFlix pairs a fiction and a non-fiction book for the children to listen to on the computer. Once all of the classes have learned how to use it, I will give you the login and password so you can use it in your classrooms as well.
For our PreK friends, we will be following directions by listening to Eric Carle's From Head to Toe, and learning a little sign language in Simply Signs by Cindy Wheeler.
Have a great week!
This week in the Media Center the Dual Language Kindergarten classes will continue the CPAA testing on the computers. The monolingual classes will hear a story, Nico and Lola, about a boy who shows kindness to a dog. We will also be trying a new computer program, BookFlix, purchased for us by PTO with Book Fair dollars.
Some of the PreK classes will be on a field trip to Woodstock Public Library during their Media Center time. Other classes will be testing on the computers. Still others will hear The Little Engine That Could.
If you would like me to do something different with your class, please let me know! I like to do different things with different classes!
I will be out of the building on Wednesday for an Elementary Library Media Specialists meeting.
Have a Great Week!
This week in the Media Center we will be doing the CPAA assessment. I have great news! I can log into your class with my own login! So I don't need to know your password for the actual testing. We will be testing the Dual Language classes in English this week and in Spanish next week.
For Kindergarten we will have half of the class at the computers, and the other half will be watching the DVD Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. If we have time we will also be using the whiteboards to practice writing their names. If you have name cards that could be brought to the Media Center, that would really help!
For PreK, I need to know your numbers. Depending on what they are, we may need to change the schedule a bit to get them all in. For the rest of your class, we can either watch the movie, A Pocket for Corduroy, or read the book. We will just have to be flexible so this all works! If we have to go into next week, that will be alright as well.
In technology news, Donna is out on medical leave. So that means if you have a problem please let me know! But it also means it may take a bit longer until it can get fixed (if I can't fix it). We are getting closer to getting the copier problem solved. It appears that it is not the copier, but some of our computers. I can fix this! So if you notice that when you send something to the copier from your computer and when you get to the copier there is a bunch of paper with strange writing on it, please let me or Linda Stanek know!
Lastly, I will be out on Tuesday and Wednesday this week for GLAD training. There will be a sub for me and the testing should still continue as planned.
Have a great week!
This week the Kindergarten Classes will hear a story about The Library Dragon! We will also be using the computers for more "mouse" practice. We will be playing KidPix. This program helps the children learn to control the mouse in a fun way!
The PreK classes will either hear Splat the Cat or Mr. Wiggle. The times have changed a bit from the original schedule, so here it is again:
Monday: (not this week!)
12:35-12:55: Beth Miller
12:50-1:10: Beatriz Ruiz
1:05-1:25: Katie Haydysch
1:20-1:40: Alyssa DiGuido
Tuesday:
9:05-9:35: Emily Beaumont
9:15-9:35: Tiffany Mondek
Wednesday:
10:05-10:35: Megan Wilson and Tiffany Mondek
Thursday:
9:05-9:25: Beth Miller
9:15-9:35: Beatriz Ruiz
Friday:
9:05-9:25: Katie Haydysch
9:15-9:35: Alyssa DiGuido
See you in the Media Center!
Extra stuff:
I have 4 very nice laptop computer bags that could go to nice homes--anyone want them?
I also have 3 boxes of single person tape players--could be good for those Debbie Diller stations?
They would need batteries, but then we could use the listening center books and tapes!
You still have one more chance for t-shirts! I will be sending in the order tonight-Tuesday, Sept. 3!
Have a great short week!
