Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

To celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday, I invited special guests to read Dr. Seuss stories to Greater Plains Elementary students all day in the library. In addition to listening to Dr. Seuss stories, each student was given a 'happy birthday' cupcake, baked by Greater Plains faculty & staff. Guest readers included  participators from Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta. One of our favorite guest readers was Mrs. Celeste Strenn who loves to read Dr. Seuss stories. It was a great day!

iPads and Pre-K?

Yes! The Pre-K class has been learning how to use the ipads at a station in their classroom. The students are excited to work on their letters and numbers using this technology.The students were first introduced to the ipads in library and taught how to properly use them. The Pre-K teacher, Mrs. Broe, started using them the next day with great success.

The Greater Plains Libary has taken on a new look! Two huge bean bag chairs have been added so the students can enjoy reading a great book in a relaxing space. There is also an area for students to work on a 1000 piece puzzle and play various word games such as Banana Grams.

Banned Book Advent Calendar

Check out the entire calendar at http://www.ifla.org/

Sixth Graders Using Glogster

The sixth grade students at GP having been researching Immigration and creating an Immigration Glog. The students have used Glogster before so they are familiar with it. Great tool to use with your students!

Poll Everywhere

Is using cell phones in school a bad idea? Check out this cool website that allows students to use what they know best in the classroom. TEXTING!!! What is Poll Everywhere? The fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices. http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Google Is At It Again!

Check out these great new tools from Google that can be used with your students!

Wonder Wheel and Timeline


Google Wonder Wheel

Google Time Line

Once you've entered your search term and gotten a list of hits, click "Show Options" at the top of your hit list. Click Wonder Wheel in the left column to help you narrow down your search and organize your search in an easy to navigate path.
Click Timeline in the left column to organize your hits by date (can you say "primary sources"?!).

Fifth Grade Book Trailers

Fifth Grade Book Trailers

Mrs. Cappiello's Second Grade Learns about Mount Rushmore

Shelfari

Check out this great new widget called Shelfari at http://www.shelfari.com/
Where you are able to create a visual shelf or your favorite titles and share them with your friends!

Tail Waggin Tutors

This summer at the Great Plains library students participated in a week long summer library program. The students were able to check out books, create a Wordle, make a PowerPoint of their favorite author, and read books to a very special friend. Check out the video to find out more!

First Grade Research

The first grade students are beginning their animal research based on the book The Rabbit and The Turtle by Eric Carle. The fifth grade students are their research buddies and have been helping them use the online databases for their research. The first students will be showing off their hard work at the First Grade Showcase on June 18th from 6:30-7:30.

Country Reports Pre-Assessment

This survey was created as a pre-assessment for the sixth grade students who are doing their country reports. As the library media specialist I hope to gain more insight into how sixth grade students view the research process.

Click Here to take survey

Wordle

Try this great Web 2.0 tool to describe a book you have read or even to describe yourself!

Voki

This is your reminder sixth grade students! There are great online databases availabe for you to use. Please check these sources first.


Get a Voki now!

Parade of Presidents

The Second Grade Superstars have been busy working on their president research project. Each student researched a president and discovered what made their president so important to our country. The students then created a Movie Maker project using Crazy Talk. We sent a copy of our project to President Barack Obama. I hope he enjoys the show! All images were taken from http://www.whitehouse.gov/slideshows/presidents/. Music was taken from Soundzabound.

Book Trailers

Book Trailers by Sixth Grade

The sixth grade students are working on Book Trailers for their Spring book reports. Check out our first successful Animoto Book Trailer!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

The kindergarten students in Mrs. Erbe's class celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday. They made hats and came to the library to hear some of the classics by Dr. Seuss.

Australian Animal Research

The third grade students in Mrs. Youngs' class have been researching Australian Animals in the library. The students learned how to use on-line resources and print resources to find interesting animal information. After their research was done the students got to choose a picture of their animal from Google Images and then create a script using the program Crazy Talk. We then turned it into a movie using Movie maker. The movie was shown to their parents on Cupid Night. Check out the great movie!