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.