Happy Halloween!

I'm happy to be back in the Media Center this week!  It will be a busy one!  Linda will be out on Monday and Tuesday, so please be patient with me as I try to check in and out books!  Thanks!

Reader's Theater begins this week!  I hope to see them as soon as they can get to the Media Center.  I will start at 8:45 and go until 9:05.  The list is in the email from Rebecca Galloza.  Thanks!

In honor of the holiday this week, I have some fun choices for Kindergarten!

1. They are:  Too Many Pumpkins and a pumpkin sequencing activity, this would also include a Smartboard pumpkin life cycle activity.
2. Click, Clack, Boo!  Farmer Brown doesn't like Halloween, see how the animals help him enjoy it!  The activity that goes with this is a little book called What Will I be...
3. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf,  and an Autumn Leaf Book.
4. The Strange Visitor, a flannel board story.

I will also be starting WiggleWorks this week.  Don't panic!  I have added all of the names of your students, if you haven't already.  Thanks to those of you who entered your students' names!  You might also want to go in and set the levels for your students.

I also have some fun choices for PreK!

Pumpkin Faces, Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Halloween Bugs, Bugs that go Bump in the Night, or Leaf Man.

Have a FUN week!

Busy Week!

Laminating...
If you would like to laminate, either email, call us, or come down and write your name on the little card above the laminator.  Sometimes we don't know who turned it on, and then we turn it off.  It only takes 15 minutes to warm up, so let us know and we will be happy to help!  Thanks!

This week I will be at GLAD training Tuesday-Friday.  I have a great sub, Carole Gerloff, who taught kindergarten here at Dierzen for many years.  She is also Beth Miller's sister!  I know she will do a great job!

Also this week, Katie, Jen, and Nuria will be doing the Second Step assessments during Media Center time for the Kindergarten classes.  

For the K classes, we will be reading either Fall is for Friends, or A Tree is Nice, which ever book your class did not get last week.  If this doesn't go with what you are doing, we also could read, Whoever you are by Mem Fox-- to go with the Second Step curriculum.

For PreK  I will read A Tree is Nice to the classes studying trees, and Can I Play too? or Watch me Throw the Ball for the classes doing the Balls unit.

As always, if you have any questions, or comments, please let me know!

Have a Great Week!!

Thanks so much!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all of those who helped with the book fair!  It went well!  We cleaned up so fast that I could go out too!  We brought in over $3000.00!  I think this is awesome!  Thanks to all who helped in anyway possible!

This week in the Media Center we are going to be looking at feelings or fall or trees!  For Kindergarten the choices are:

1. A Tree is Nice
2. Fall is for Friends
3. The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
4. When Sophie Gets Angry, Really really angry!

In technology, we can do WiggleWorks, or visit "Pierre, the Acorn" on the U of I website!

In PreK, I can read, My Many Colored Days,  How are you Peeling?, or a book about trees, if that's what theme you are working on now.

Have a great week!

Book Fair Week!

The Book Fair is almost here!  Be looking for the "Book Fair-oh" during conferences!  Please turn in your wish lists as soon as you can.  There will be Spanish books at the fair, so if you need to wait until it is open, that is fine too!  We will be setting up at 11:30 on Wednesday, and the fair is set to open at 1:00.  If you have any time I could really use some help!  I could especially use help for the clean-up at 9:00 on Thursday. I know that it's a lot to ask, but many hands make light work and we could be done in no time with lots of help!  Thanks!

In Kindergarten this week, I will be reading Book Fair Day!  Then we will watch part of the book fair video. We will also be playing  BookFlix on the computers.  Have you had a chance to check it out?  It is a really cool program that has a fiction video paired with a non-fiction book.  If you choose to use it, the user name is vdelc and the password is bookflix.  We were able to purchase it with book fair dollars last year.

In PreK this week we will be watching Yuck! Stuck in the Muck.  It is on Storia, a free app, also from Scholastic.  If you would like information about it, a flyer will be available at the Book Fair.

I am in the midst of moving all of the Spanish books to their own section.  They are all separated at the moment, but not quite all on the shelves as yet.   In doing this process, I have found we have quite a few interesting books!  Did you know we have more non-fiction books in Spanish, than fiction books?  I have also purchased many books relevant to the common core. Come down and take a look! 

The laminator is working well now!  If you need to use it, please let Linda O'Brien or I know when you need it. Please give us 15 minutes head start, so it will be ready for you.  If anyone has any ideas on how to save laminating film, please let me know!  Everytime some one uses the laminator, about 12 inches of film is wasted.  Each roll of film is about $28.00 and we use 2 rolls at a time.  If we keep at the same rate we have been, we will run out by Winter break!  

All the classes have been set up in Wiggle Works.  If you go into the program and click on Manager, you can log in using the password: teacher.  If it doesn't work, it could be that someone else is trying to use it at the same time.  For some reason, it will only allow one person at a time to use the Manager feature.  If you don't know how to add names or have any other questions, please let me know!

Have a great week!