Last IMC class of 2015!

We've ended our Typing Unit last week. I really encourage my library learners to continue on with the program until they've completed all levels. We will revisit typing next year. They program we used was www.typing.com. Students can continue with the accounts I've created or sign up for a new account, with parent permission. :)

This week, we listened to a holiday story to kick off winter break. 3rd grade listened to Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express narrated by William Hurt. 4th grade was read Cranberry Christmas. 5th grade read The Carpenter's Gift :: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree. Students can learn more about the tree at www.rockefellercenter.com or more about Habitat for Humanity at www.habitat.org

Take a look at our busy year in the IMC! It has been fun! We will continue to have fun in 2016!





Enjoy the holidays with you and your families! Merry Christmas!

Typing Unit Has Ended

Our typing unit has ended. However I highly encourage your child to continue with our program! Students may continue with typing at www.typing.com and use the accounts I created for them!

Next week we will do something fun in IMC before we break for winter!

Typing

We are working on our typing skills for the next several weeks in the IMC. We started our typing unit last week. This will continue up until the week before Winter break. We are learning home row position and continuing as the program progresses. Students are encouraged to use home row position when they are using their Chromebooks...not just when they're practicing typing. Students are welcome to practice at home with the free program at www.typing.com

Halloween Week in the IMC

We've enjoyed our storybook pumpkins that have been coming in to the IMC! Thank you to everyone who participated and created a pumpkin! They all turned out spook-tacular! Check them all out here in the video!





This week students listened to one of Patrick Carmen's 3:15 Things That Go Bump in the Night. This is my favorite book to read to the students. 3:15 means we "listen to a chilling introduction", we "read the spooky story", and we "watch the scary video ending" if we decide we're brave enough! Visit 315stories.com for more info!

IMC Cafe

Last week and this week IMC classes will be coming to library class for IMC cafe. Here we will be taste testing the 20 nominees for the Bluestem award and the Rebecca Caudill award. Students in grades 3-5 should read 4 or more Bluestem nominees by February to vote. Students in grades 4 & 5 should read 3 or more of the Caudills to vote in February for their favorite.

IMC update

Last night we had a very successful and amazing literacy night with bestselling author, Kate Klise! She visited our school to do a writer's workshop with our students and parents. It was a free event thanks to our awesome PTO! Students learned about the writing process to write their own best seller and many had a chance to share their stories. We even heard one of Kate's stories, Grammy Lamby and the Secret Handshake. Kate had books to purchase and autographed them all and took many pictures with our library learners. Such a fun night! Thank you to everyone that came out!

Coming up this week in the IMC:

3rd: Will go on a book hunt with the iPads. We've been talking about location in the library and where our materials are found. This activity will reinforce location. They will work in teams and hunt for books in different sections of the library. 

4th: We will continue with our genre unit. We already studied realistic and science fiction. This week we will learn about the elements that make a book historical fiction. 

5th: We will continue with our Dewey Decimal unit. We will finish up our Dewey Hunt and make a word cloud to describe the section of the nonfiction collection using tagul.com. 

This week in the IMC September 21-25

3rd Grade: This week students will learn about location in the library! It is important to know where all our books are located so we know where to find them. Mrs. Csorba made a Zaption Tour of the IMC that the students watched and answered questions about the virtual tour on their Chromebooks!

4th Grade: Over the course of the year we will explore the different fiction genres. This week we will review what genre is and focus on realistic fiction.

5th Grade: Students will go on a Dewey Hunt and explore the nonfiction collection to get to know the Dewey Decimal system and the nonfiction collection better. Students will create word clouds using Tagul to describe the different nonfiction sections.

Author Visit Coming Soon!

Let’s Get Ready for an Author Visit with…

 

Kate Klise

http://kateandsarahklise.com/

Calling All Young Writers!!!
Join bestselling author Kate Klise for a writing workshop the whole family can enjoy on Thursday, October 1. If you’ve ever wanted to write a book but didn’t know how to start, this workshop is for you. Kate will talk about how she wrote her first book when she was 10 years old. She’ll share her best publishing tips and tricks. She’ll even get you started writing your own bestseller. The one-hour program begins at 6:30 p.m  at Prairieview. Books will be available for purchase before or after the program. Paperbacks are $5 and hardcovers are $15. Cash or check only, please. For more information about our author and her books, please click the link below the picture to check out my glog on Kate!

http://jcsorba.edu.glogster.com/author-kate-klise-visit/

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, October 1!

 Bring the whole family!

Thank Your PTO for Sponsoring this Author Visit!

Chromebooks in the IMC and for checkout!

This week for library classes and checkouts and going forward, students are to bring their Chromebooks to the IMC. This week, we reviewed Chromebook expectations that the teachers went over in class. We also learned how to search the IPAC (Internet Public Access Catalog) for books in our library. Students can and are encouraged to do this at home! How do they search our collection from home with the IPAC? Follow these simple instructions: 1. www.ccsd66.org 2. Click library 3. Click Prairieview IMC 4. Scroll down and click "External Access" 5. Now you can search our collection! Enjoy! Don't forget if you have an Instagram account to follow the IMC @pvimc :)

This week in the IMC...

Library Learners will be hearing how to be Respectful, Responsible and Safe in the IMC for classes and checkout! A note came home reviewing these expectations as well as book care and circulation policies!

Welcome Back

Welcome Back Library Learners! We had so much fun at our first IMC class hearing about summer vacation and all the books we read! We kicked off our Super year of reading with Superhero bookmarks! Check out our Flipagram! :)

Summer Reading at the Public Libraries

Don't forget to keep reading this summer to prevent "summer slide" when you return to school in the Fall. Indian Prairie Library's Program is called "Home Made Readers". Starts June 13-August 8. For more info go to summer.ippl.info for birth-grade 6. Woodridge and DG public library's theme is "Every Hero Has a Story" for their summer reading. It started June 1 and ends July 25.

The Csorba family is all signed up for our summer reading. Jack's goal is to have someone read to him every day for 20 minutes. Emma's goal is the Ducky Reading and we have different reading activities to do with her for the summer.

Have a great summer everyone!

-Mrs. Csorba

All About Them Books!

Hi there, Library Learners! It's that time of year that all materials need to be returned to the IMC asap!!! Check out this funny parody to All About That Bass! Come see Mrs. Warkentien or me if you have any questions about your books that you have to still return! Thanks for your help!

What's Happening in the IMC?

This week we started reading our novels during library class. At the end of every school year, we spend the last month reading (all of class and about 10 minutes of checkout) a book that is being nominated for either a Bluestem Award or Rebecca Caudill for the next year. Third grade is reading, Matilda by Roald Dahl. Fourth grade is reading Three Times Lucky by Shelia Turnage. Fifth grade is reading Chomp by Carl Hiaasen.

3rd Grade's Book

4th Grade's Book

5th Grade's Book

May Reading Challeng

To kick off the month of May (well, a week into the month ;) ), I shared with my Library Learners a reading challenge.

Complete as many as you can. Cross off as you finish!

Rain Reign

Title: Rain Reign
Author: Ann M. Martin Call Number: FIC MAR
Reviewer: Mrs. Csorba

Summary: 
Rating: excellent

Review: Rose is our protagonist. She has Aspergers syndrome. She is obsessed with homonyms and prime numbers. We hear this story from her point of view. Rose's dad gives her a dog on a rainy night and they form a special bond. Then one night, dad lets Rain outside during a hurricane and Rain goes missing. This is such a great story about love and loss...but not the kind of loss you might be thinking about. This is one of my top books for the year. It is a must read! 

Unread Book and CheckItOut :: Bruno Mars & Taylor Swift Parodies

Last week was National Library Week! I came across these two fun videos that promote reading and public libraries! They are so cute! I hope you enjoy them!

What's happening in the IMC?

3rd graders are finishing up their non-fiction text features projects for Open House. If you're planning on coming to Open House, please stop by and visit!

4th and 5th Grades: Continue to work on keyboarding skills using http://www.typing.com/

We have started to display the 2016 Bluestem and Caudill Nominees for next year. Check them out! You'll be hearing about them in the Fall of next year. I also will start reading one of these to the classes at the end of the year!

2015 Tournament of Books Winner is...

Congrats to Wonder by R. J. Palacio! Wonder won our Tournament of Books for March Madness. We had a lot of fun filling out our brackets and voting! 

Typing

Library classes will spend the next month of April in the lab working on typing skills with typing.com. Students are welcomed to create their own account at home with parent permission for home practice. This website is free. Using touch typing is a great life skill all learners should acquire! 

We also are coming to an end with our Tournament of Books. We should know the winner next week! 

2015 Bluestem Winner and results from Prairieview

The 2015 Bluestem Award went to The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate and it was also 1st place for Prairieview.

2nd Place for PV was Small Steps: The Year I got Polio by Peg Kehret

3rd Place for PV was A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean!

Thank you to all the participated and voted! Ask Mrs. Csorba or Mrs. Warkentien about the 2016 nominees. We have them on display for you to start reading for next year!

2015 Rececca Caudill Winner and Results

The 2015 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award goes to Legend by Marie Lu.

For Prairieview:
1st Place was The One and Only Ivan by Katerine Applegate
2nd Place was One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
3rd Place was Legend by Marie Lu