March Choice Boards and One School One Book

Today is the BIG LAUNCH....our school is celebrating Read Across America and One School One Book with the Adventures According to Humphrey.  Our school community will be reading a chapter a day while completing fun activities across every grade level and resource class. The website, Read to Them, provided discussion questions, trivia, activities, and guidance for how to host a successful program. Highly recommend! 

To set the scene for the book this week, students dressed in pjs so they could "snuggle" with a good book on Monday. Tuesday students brought their favorite stuffed animal. Today, Wednesday, students and staff are dressing like pirates. The big title reveal was announced this morning during our daily morning announcements. Everyone is ready to celebrate our reading adventures with Humphrey the hamster!

To supplement the activities, I created a choice board for students to access over the next couple of weeks both from home or at their literacy station at school. It follows the same CREATE format that I have used with my other library stations. I included the image below, but you can check out the board and the links on the library website here: According to Humphrey Choice Board on the Website

If you would like a copy of the board to make changes, click HERE. 

I also created a virtual classroom that combines several March themes. If you would like to view it on the website, click HERE. 

If you would like to make copy of the classroom, so you can modify it, click HERE. 

 A third choice board option is one that focuses on springtime and March. This choice board also includes links to other choice boards from other librarians (credit is given on their slide). 

Feel free to make a copy HERE. 

I am excited about our reading adventures, and I know the kids are going to love having a pet hamster that will live in the front office to greet all of our visitors and students. Hopefully March will be full of warm days and sunshine! 

OLYMPIC FUN @ Hannon's Hub ...Recap

 

The Winter Olympics were certainly exciting, and we were happy to join the fun @ Hannon's Hub. We are going to return to our normal CREATE stations this week (we will pick up with the ART station) and I will continue to share what we are doing. 

In the meantime, our last Olympic station was our EXPLORE station. The EXPLORE station normally has students working on their lego storyboards. This time around, we had students create the Olympic Rings using legos! This was quite the challenge, and we had so many fun designs.

  

Here is a recap of what we did during all of our OLYMPIC Stations....

Let's start with our ROBOT  station where we had fun with our SPHERO and OLLIE! These are awesome robots, and we were able to turn this robot into a snowboarder mastering our halfpipe ramps. Ollie and Sphreo had to build up steam and give it their best. 

Here is the blog post highlighting the ROBOT station: Ollie and Sphero

In our ENGINEERING station we created our own OLYMPIC ski slopes. Students produced all kinds of sizes, shapes, ramps, and designs. It was fun to watch them make a plan, build it, and test them out. 

Minecraft at our COMPUTER station is always a favorite. The students look forward to this EVERY week. Students designed ski slopes, skating rinks, the Olympic Rings and so much more. They built their creations in the arctic biome, which really set the scene. 

More information on our ski slope and Minecraft challenge can be found here: OLYMPICS in the LIBRARY.

Quivervsion ART station had our students designing their own OLYMPIC FLAG or using an almanac to find a flag from a country who participated in the Olympics. Check this station out in more details: ART STATION. 

That's a wrap....next I will share more of our regular ART station, as well as our technology station and explore station. Also, stay tuned. We are getting ready to launch ONE BOOK, ONE SCHOOL, and I will share what we are doing! 

Sphero and Ollie Make their Snowboarding Olympic Debut!

Who has solved the Olympic Wordle today? We only have four more days! Check it out here....

Who loves snowboarding? We have turned our robots into professional snowboarders! We love driving the Sphero and Ollie all over the library... but getting them up and over the ramps is a new challenge that we are tackling. Each class has configured the ramps in different ways and styles. Needless to say, watch your feet because these robots have taken over the library! 

Before dismissing learners to their station, I do give a brief overview of what to expect. Here is the challenge sign I created for the table, so they can can head to their station, read the challenge and get started. Click on the image below to get the link to the sign! 

Quivervision joins the OLYMPIC EXCITEMENT!

The olympics are always a special time when the world comes together to compete in the greatest games and 2022 has had an awesome Olympic start. Our students have caught the excitement in the library. 

How do we combine our art station with the Olympics? We celebrate the different countries. Using the Quivervision flag worksheet, students recreate one of the flags from a country that is currently participating in the Beijing Olympics. This is the PERFECT opportunity for our library learners to access a PRINT alamanac, which has all of the flags included, so they know what they look like! Using the almanac, they find a flag to re-create, confirm that country is participating in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and then they draw it on the Quivervision sheet below. 

Once the flag is complete, learners use the Quivervision app to bring the flag to life! 

Next week we will discuss the significance of the Olympic flag with the Olympic rings, and I will encourage learners to think about what the Olympics mean to them and have them design their own original Olympic flag. I will keep you posted on how they turn out!