Last IMC class of the year!

Last class of the year...as in calendar year! Ha! Traditionally in the IMC, this week's classes hear a holiday story. Mrs. Csorba is excited to share the audio version of The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. Van Allsburg just so happened to be our author spotlight for December too!

Checkouts last week and this week had this cozy fire to read next too! Don't these two Panthers look cute reading by the fire?!?

Wishing all my readers a wonderful winter break and Happy Holidays from the Csorba Family. We are excited to celebrate little Miss Emma's first Christmas as a family of 4. She is already 9 months old! 

Digital Passports

This week our library learners will be in the computer lab again to continue our internet safety unit. Mrs. Csorba set up their digital passports. Students will watch a quick video and play a game to reinforce what they learned about internet safety. All students create their avatar and learn why and how to make a strong password.

3rd grade: Communication: Twalkers
4th grade: Privacy: Share Jumper and Cyberbully: E-volve
5th grade: Search: Search Shark and Creative Credit: Mix n Match

www.digitalpassport.org

Internet Safety

This week, library learners will be in the computer lab learning about all different ways to stay safe online and rules. 3rd graders will be learning about online safety. 4th graders will be learning about information privacy. 5th graders will be learning about cyberbullying. We will be watching Brainpop videos and doing the activities that accompany the video.

Book Hunt with Aurasma App

 To reinforce the Zaption book tour from last week, students went on a book hunt. Using location in the library, call numbers, team work, and the Aurasma app on the iPad, students searched for books in the different sections of the library. 3rd graders had 4 books to hunt for. 4th and 5th graders had 6 books to hunt for. It was awesome to see the excitement, engagement and team work among the students. The hard work and time spent to develop this book hunt was WELL WORTH IT! Many students rated this week's lesson with a smiley face again. :)

Cavoto's 1st Place

Mandru's 1st Place tie

Mandru's 1st Place tie

Hendron's 1st Place

Klacza's 1st Place

Olsen's 1st Place

Pellin's 1st Place

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Bell's 1st Place 

Spakausky's 1st Place

A Girl With A Cape Author

A Girl With A Cape author, Amy Logan came to our school Friday, 11/14/14 to Rock the Cape with our Panthers. Her books delivers such a great message about the power of our words and to pay it forward with kindness. Our wonderful PTO paid for our author visit, bought a book for each classroom and the IMC, and provided a green and gold colored cape/scarf for each student! What a great day it was! 

4th Grade

5th Grade

3rd Grade

Amy Logan & Mrs. Csorba

Mr. Pagel and Amy Logan

Zaption Tour in the IMC

Students watched a Zaption tour of the IMC in the lab this week. The tour reviewed location in the library and call numbers. When students were asked to rate today's lesson, majority of our panthers post it notes went to the smiley face. :) 

The Storybook Pumpkins are Here!

Our Panthers did a SPOOK-TACULAR job with their storybook pumpkins! So proud of all that participated! Hope you enjoy as much as I did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Caudill Book Trailers

Click on title to view the book trailer for the 2015 Caudill Nominees.

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Legend by Marie Lu

Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

Almost Home by Joan Bauer

One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Unstoppable  by Tim Green

The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Ungifted by Gordan Korman

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook by Joanne Rocklin

Saving Zasha by Randi Borrow

Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close

A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Frizmaurice

Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George

Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald

Never Say Die by Will Hobbs

The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Slob by Ellen Potter

Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

2015 Rebecca Caudill Nominees

This week our 4th and 5th graders enjoyed a second book tasting session with the 20 Rebecca Caudill nominees. The students sat in the IMC Cafe, heard the "chef's specials" which was an iMovie about the nominees. Then they had to taste test 3 books and were encouraged to look at as many that they could put their hands on.

Our 3rd graders listened to a Bluestem nominee, The Dunderheads. 

Week of October 13th :: Bluestem Nominees for 2015

This week our Panthers will enjoy a book tasting in the IMC. We will have the library set up like a restaurant complete with table cloths, menus, and books to taste! The menu items will be the 20 Bluestem nominees for 2015. See list below.  Check out the iMovie for these nominees. Students should read at least four but are encouraged to read more or even them all by February to vote.

Week of September 29th :: Storybook Pumpkins Info

We will be getting ready for Fall by decorating the IMC and planting a storybook pumpkin patch. Students will find out in class this week about Storybook Pumpkins and how to participate.

Here is the iMovie Mrs. Csorba made last year. We had over 100 pumpkins that were "planted" in the IMC. It was super fun! Did you participate last year? We hope you all have fun and enjoy the pumpkins!

Week of September 22nd

We will spend the week of September 22nd in our computer lab again. 3rd graders will learn their user names and passwords to log onto our computers. We will have a discussion about why we have user names and passwords and the importance of keeping that information private. 

4th and 5th graders will log on to the computers and into their Google accounts. I will be teaching them how to make word clouds at tagul.com and linking this to their Google accounts. 

Recap from last week: 

1. We have a new display that we will change monthly. We are starting a "author spotlight" display. Our Panther readers can read a short bio about our selected author and check out books by that author. Our first author is Andrew Clements. 

We stared a new center last week called book recommendations. Students can sit down and write some information about a favorite book that they would recommend to someone and share why they liked it. Here are a few great recommendations!