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?

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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/