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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

BEST OF 2009

Wild Things by Clay Carmichael



Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff

Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff

A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck

Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly


Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

We're back!

Hi All,
Peirce School Library's Blog has taken a long vacation but is officially back!

It is almost time for the Massachusetts Children's Book Award celebration to begin. This year I am presenting a challenge to Peirce 4th and 5th graders. I plan to read EACH AND EVERY TITLE for the 2009-2010 vote. Do you want to challenge me to a read off?? Stay tuned for information on what I am reading and how my progress in the challenge is going! So far I have read...

Rules- by Cynthia Lord
The Lemonade War- Jacqueline Davies
The London Eye Mystery- Siobhan Dowd
Swindle- by Gordon Korman

Yikes, I better get reading!

Happy Halloween!
Ms. Lightfoot

MCBA Ms. Champagne's Class

Mrs. Ceddia's class MCBA

Ms. Blanchard's Class MCBA

Big Hugh Labs

Here is the link for Big Hugh Labs!
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

Contest!

Create your own video book review and enter it in the 2009 Storytubes Contest! To participate, film your 2 minutes or less review with 1 to 5 people per video and upload the file on to Youtube or Teachertube. Contest runs from January 8-February 15,2009. For more information click here, or come see Ms. Lightfoot in the library!

MCBA 2008-2009

Looking for more information on the MCBA books? Check out this blog post!

5th Grade- MCBA Voice Thread Project

Voice Thread - to watch the tutorial video click on "What is a VoiceThread Anyway"

I was really impressed with all of the brainstorming I saw today in class. There were some great ideas that came up and I am very excited for this project. Great work!

The Big House by Carolyn Coman

Coman, Carolyn. The Big House. Honesdale, PA : Front Street, 2004. ISBN 1-932425-09-8.

Ray and Ivy's parents have just been sent to prison for 25 years for embezzlement. If that isn't bad enough, their accusers, Marietta and Lionel, have offered to let Ray and Ivy live with them! The big house they live in holds lots of secrets. Ivy knows that Marietta and Lionel are guilty of something, she just doesn't know what. Her mission- find evidence against Marietta and Lionel and take them to court. As Ivy and Ray begin their investigation they find lots of different pieces of evidence but are not sure how this evidence adds up. Luckily, they make some friends along the way who help them figure out the evidence they have collected.