Category Archives: K/1 & 1/2

Author & Illustrator Julie Paschkis!

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This Friday, from 3-3:30pm the Daniel Bagley Library is excited to welcome Author and Illustrator Julie Paschkis!  Ms. Paschkis is coming to talk to our youngest (K and 1) scholars about he work as an Author and Illustrator.  Thanks Ms. McNeer for this unique opportunity to collaborate with you and for making all necessary arrangements to bring Ms. Paschkis to us!

From our K/1 Library Curriculum this week:

For our November unit we are preparing ourselves as readers for a visit from a real, live, author and illustrator, Julie Paschkis!  In October, while with Ms. McNeer for art, Ks and 1s were studing chickens.  Ms. Paschkis’ book Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crockodile was one of many books and materials students used when drawing their chickens.

Ms. McNeer has contacted Ms. Paschkis and she is coming to talk with our Ks and 1s about her jobs as both an author and an illustrator.  During library time we are identifying the different roles of both the author and the illustrator as well as diving deeply into many of Ms. Paschkis’ works:

In addition to preparing our Passports for Ms.mooshka2 Paschkis’ visit, we are designing our own Mooskas (quilts) – each with 6 different schnitzs (a quilt block that tells a story).

CCSS RL.K.6 With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Ways to Celebrate

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K/1, 1/2 and 2/3 have been reading non-fiction materials about Valentine’s Day.  In the book Valentines Day by Trudi Strain Trueit, we learned that some people celebrate Valentine’s Day by guessing how many candy hearts are in a jar.  So, for the next week students K-5 will hone their skills of estimation to try and win a jar of candy hearts for their classroom.  So far our estimates range from 72 to 1,000,000.   How many candy hearts do you think are in our jar?

Update: Wednesday 2/13

Congratulations to Ms. Humphrey’s class.  D guessed 510 and there were 507 heart shaped candies in the jar.

I hope that it Snows!

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December 19 – January 7

It couldn’t have been more perfect that there was snow sprinkled on the grouund when I walked to school this morning.  For the last couple of weeks we have been reading winter books (Snowy Day and Waiting for Winter) and looking at our weekly winter report – hoping for snow! What more could I ask for to culminate the K/1, 1/2 winter unit.  This week we are working to turn our library into a winter wonderland – a display that this time strapped librarian is hoping will last well into February!

Students are meeting on the rug where we watch one sample snow flake (materials needed include basket coffee filters, scissors, and of course paper bags to catch our clippings).  In addition to Ms. Wynkoop modeling the taco, 1/4, pizza fold and making small cuts, we also looked at the Happy Snowflake App on the library iPad to see how the cutys we make translate into snowflake patterns.

After library checkout, we are listening to a specially selected medley of snow and winter songs while we quietly create our one-of-a kind snowflakes and bask in the magic of snowfall.  Students are delighted to see their work instantly displayed in the library!

Celebrating our Reading Lives!

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Each month we will engage in an activity that celebrates our lives as readers.  Thematically, October inspired us to think of our favorite literary characters as if they were pumpkins!  We have some very talented artists in the DBE Library.  Students were given a pumpkin template, crayons and total access to the library books for inspiration. 

Some drawings included: Kinani, Molly and Rebecca (American Girls), Voldemort, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Piggie, Pokemon, Thea Stilton, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a Dolphins and Fly Guy.

Go ahead, see if you can guess who these characters are.

A.    B.    C.    D.  

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What’s for Dinner?

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October 3 – October 8

K/1 and 1/2 classes are asking the question, “What’s for Dinner?” in the library this week.  Mr. Millsap (our health and fitness teacher) has laid and incredible foundation with all Bagley Bees regarding making healthy choices for themselves.  The dinner/dessert metaphor translates easily into the library as well. 

Books we choose for dinner are books that feed our brains, helps us grow as readers and provide balance in our reading diets.  Of course a well balanced reading diet also includes some dessert – in moderation of course! 

 Students worked collaboratively to decide what foods would be good dinner foods and what foods would be good dessert foods.  We actually set our table and placed our food on our plates!  Once healthy dinner choices were agreed upon, we moved on to dessert.  Students then picked dessert!  We then transitioned to pre-selected books and again worked collaboratively to place dinner books on our plates and dessert books on our dessert platter.

To close the lesson we drew pictures of our well balanced dinners in our Libary Passports and checked out books.  Daniel Bagley Bees are healthy readers!

Monthly Reading Celebration!

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September 26- October 1

K-5 we are celebrating reading this week!

  • 4/5s spent classtime looking for October books, selecting books to balance our reading lives and exploring reading online using our iPads and Flipboard. 
  • 2/3s flipped our regular schedule and we started our days with book selection.  Teachers assessed students’ reading levels and students then used this informatino to find Just Right Books in the Daniel Bagley Library.  We used the dinner and dessert metaphor, often used by Mr. Millsap in Health and Fitness, to identify how and why we make the choices we do as readers.
  • K/1s and 1/2 – We read Hooray for Reading Day by Margery Cuyler and Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds (a title that is new to the DBE Collection this year).  Students stamped their passports with Balloons and added a title/author sticker. 

K-3’s First Library Visit

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If you’d like to know what Bagley Readers are doing in the library each week, follow the tabbed links at the top of the page (K/1 & 1/2, 2/3 and 4/5) to find weekly updates.

This week students K-3 were introduced to their Library Passports and Library Field Journals – both of which will provide keen insight into their lives as readers and library users throughout the year.  4/5 students have been working on shaping a vision for the DBE Library!

One additional way you can follow curricular posts, books reviews and library events online is through Facebook.  If you are already on facebook, please feel free to LIKE our library page: http://www.facebook.com/DBELibrary.

It is always great to BEE a BEE!