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!