Happenings in Spring Valley Media Center for the week of October 12-16

This is going to be a busy week this week. First of all the Fall Scholastic Book Fair will open up on Thursday night, October 15 for Hispanic Heritage Night. The book fair will be open to all families from 5:00-7:00 pm.  The book fair will run from Friday, October 16-Friday, October 23.

As far as student learning goes, I will be focusing on genres with grades 3-5. Last time, students in these grades were learning about Destiny online catalog. This time around I want to do some book talking with these grades levels and the Information and Technology Essential Standards (ITES) specifically wants students to learn about genres, so doing book talks along with genre studies is a great way to tie both topics together. The books that I am going to book talk are How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor and Ungifted by Gordon Korman.

For first and second grade, we will do some computer work. I am going to introduce them to the Capstone ebook library. With kindergarten, we did an author study on the great author and illustrator Tomie dePaola. Now we are going to focus on Peter Brown, another wonderful author and illustrator. Just like Tomie dePaola, Peter Brown has several terrific books to choose from. The one I know the kindergarteners will love is Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds. Peter Brown did the illustrations on this book and it was a Caldecott Honor winner.