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March Madness 2016

Hello Peirce Community! Our March Madness Reading Celebration is back. Students are reading and earning points for their class team. Make sure students log their reading beginning this Thursday, March 10. All information can be found by clicking here.

Yes, David!

To celebrate finishing our David Shannon author study, Ms. Crovo's class and Ms. Houston-Carr's class made pictures of David being a good library user. The illustrations were to be done in David Shannon's style, bright colors, funny and pictures that take up the whole page. Below are the VoiceThreads they created about their pictures. (Sorry for the background noise!)

Ms. Houston-Carr's Class


Ms. Crovo's Class

Website Evaluation Tools

5th graders have been learning about the art of evaluating websites in order to decide if they are a reliable source of information. To begin this unit 5th graders were tricked with a fake website about explorers. This website looked professional and had some accurate information, but upon further exploration students began realizing that the website talks about how Columbus kept in touch through email and other crazy facts. We then began talking about the 5W's of website evaluation and why it is important to evaluate a website before you use it. Next, groups of students came up with tools to use to keep the 5W's in mind when using the web. They were able to do pretty much any type of tool we could find the materials for. The results were very creative! This VoiceThread lets them explain their tools.

March Madness Author Challenge Championship

Can't say that I am surprised by the two authors in the championship match up! Next week each class will get to vote for their favorite author. Stay tuned- results will be posted next Friday!

Final Four!!

We are down to the final four authors in the March Madness Author Challenge!! Who are you rooting for?

March Madness Author Challenge 2012

This year as an additional way to incorporate reading into the NCAA March Madness Tournament the library is holding a Peirce Favorite Author Challenge. Sixteen authors were selected and grouped into 4 categories: Funny Authors, Author/Illustrators, Tales Authors (folk, fairy, tall) and Early Reader Authors. So far we have completed the first round as well as one match up from our second round. Sadly, David Shannon was eliminated today by Mo Willems. Who do you think will win the whole tourney?

Library Blog Wordle

Ms.Mitchell's Class Insect Book

Over the past several weeks Ms. Mitchell's K/1 class has been hard at work on creating a book full of facts on insects. We began this project by gathering information on insects, which they had also been learning about in class. In library class we were learning about ABC books, so we used an ABC book format to create our book. We used a database (Capstone's Pebble Go) to find facts about bugs. We then created pictures of the bugs using the computer program KidPix. Finally we imported our book into VoiceThread so we could read our facts and share it with you. Please feel free to leave more comments on our book.

Thank You Thank You!

Many books were purchased for the library during the recent book fair. Many thanks to the families who purchased books and also to the PTO for purchasing books for the library. Some of the great new titles we received are :
The Batboy by Mike Lupica
Framed by Gordon Korman
Dewey the Library Cat by Vicki Myron
Knuffle Bunny Free by Mo Willems
The Red Blazer Girls by Michael Beil
Knights of the Lunch Table by Frank Cammuso
Library Mouse- a World to Explore by Daniel Kirk
Bats by Lily Wood
NERDS, M is for Mama's Boy by Michael Buckley
Amelia Rules! The Tweenage Guide to Not Being Popular by Jimmy Gownley

And several of the nominees for the 2010-2011 Massachusetts Children's Book Award, such as :
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
Truth and Salsa by Linda Lowery
The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Alabama Moon by Watt Key
Iron Thunder by Avi
Mudville by Kurtis Scala