The PTA and Ridgecrest Library are partnering to sponsor the first annual Book Exchange, taking place during the Taste of Ridgecrest on Friday, June 8th, from 5:30-8:30pm. The Exchange is great way to clear some space on your bookshelves and also get some new books into students' hands for summer reading.
Students can bring gently used books that they think other students would like and exchange them for Book Bucks, then use the Book Bucks to go shopping among all the donated books. Students can exchange up to ten books for up to ten Book Bucks, but if families want to donate more than ten books, we will gladly accept them as a donation. We hope to give each kindergartener a free Book Buck to get a free book for the summer, so extra books are always welcome.
Thank you for your generosity and support of this new program at Ridgecrest. We look forward to continuing this next year!
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
All library books due June 13th
All library books are due back in the library by Wednesday, June 13th, even if Wednesday is not library day for a class. Your help in getting books back even sooner is much appreciated. We have a lot of work to do in the library and need to start getting organized for summer work. Thank you!
Monday, April 30, 2012
Poetry Month Centers
Around the library I set up 11 centers to celebrate poetry. They involve reading, writing, playing and sharing poetry.
Refrigerator magnet poetry
Partner poetry reading
Partner poetry reading
Interactive whiteboard poetry activity: Poetry Splatter
Origami based on poetry: Fold Me a Poem
Origami poetry
Acrostic poems with illustrations
Partner poetry reading: You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
Poetry on the computer: Robopoem
Poetry in song: Take Me Out to the Bathtub
iPad Poetry Activities: Shel Silverstein app
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Poetry Month - A Poem in Your Pocket
April is National Poetry Month, and though we read and celebrate poetry all year long, this month gives us a chance to highlight it for an extended period of time.
My favorite activity is the Poem in Your Pocket, which is ongoing throughout the month. I have a pair of pants hanging up with a pocket for each grade level. Poems specific to each grade level (some are about subjects they study in science or social studies, i.e. insects for 2nd grade, rocks for 3rd grade) are put into each pocket. Students are encouraged to pick out a poem and carry it in their pocket for a day, sharing it with anyone they can read it to or with. It can be a family member, a friend, someone they are waiting in line with, their dog, as long as they can either read it or have it read to them.
Students then return to me and tell me they have shared their poem, and then they get a National Poetry Month bookmark (with a short poem on it, of course!). They can then take another poem from the pocket on the pants and share it over the next day and come back for another bookmark. They can take one poem and get one bookmark per day.
Many kids look forward to this activity and ask me when the pants will be hung back up so they can collect more poems and more bookmarks. So I'm excited to start this up again for National Poetry Month, 2012!
My favorite activity is the Poem in Your Pocket, which is ongoing throughout the month. I have a pair of pants hanging up with a pocket for each grade level. Poems specific to each grade level (some are about subjects they study in science or social studies, i.e. insects for 2nd grade, rocks for 3rd grade) are put into each pocket. Students are encouraged to pick out a poem and carry it in their pocket for a day, sharing it with anyone they can read it to or with. It can be a family member, a friend, someone they are waiting in line with, their dog, as long as they can either read it or have it read to them.
Students then return to me and tell me they have shared their poem, and then they get a National Poetry Month bookmark (with a short poem on it, of course!). They can then take another poem from the pocket on the pants and share it over the next day and come back for another bookmark. They can take one poem and get one bookmark per day.
Many kids look forward to this activity and ask me when the pants will be hung back up so they can collect more poems and more bookmarks. So I'm excited to start this up again for National Poetry Month, 2012!
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