4th Grade Biography Project

Mr Viotto's, Mrs. Borowski's and Mrs. Fritsch's 4th grade classes are learning about biographies. They will be checking a biography out from the library and gathering information about their person before turning it into a Voki project in the computer lab.

Here is an example Voki project about Shel Silverstein.



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SMARTboard in the Library!

New in the Clovis Grove Library this year is an electronic whiteboard we call a SMARTboard. Here is a 1st grade class learning how to take care of their library books doing and interactive picture sort.

Did you hear?

Did you hear there is going to be a 4th Diary of a Wimpy Kid book? The book will be out October 12, 2009. No one knows the title of the book yet, that will be released soon!

Fractured Fairy Tales

This week in second grade we are learning about fractured fairy tales. A fractured fairy tale is almost the same as any normal fairy tale you know, like Sleeping Beauty or Cindrella, but the author has changed some of the characters, part of the setting or part of the plot of the story.



The last time the second grade was in the library, we heard the Disney story of Cinderella. This week we are reading, Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston.


Some of the other great fractured fairy tales we have in the library are: Little Red Cowboy Hat - from Little Red Riding Hood, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - from The Three Little Pigs, Sumorella - from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beaks - from Beauty and the Beast to name a few.

Dewey Decimal System

This week in the library, 3rd and 4th grade students will be learning about the Dewey Decimal System. That is the 10 groups that nonfiction books are separated into in on the library shelves.

The dewey decimal system was created by a man named Melvil Dewey in the year 1876. This is a picture of Melvil Dewey.

This is a great link to the 10 groups within nonfiction. http://www.scottpublib.org/dragon/Dewey.html

Lost Book Makes a Return

We have been missing book number 4 in the Gordon Korman series On the Run. There are 6 books in this series and missing book number four was making readers mad that they were missing an important part of the series.

The wait is over. We now have a copy of The Stowaway Solution back on our library shelves.

In this series two kids, Aiden and Meg Falconer have to help their parents. Their parents are about to be sent away to life in prison. Aiden and Meg have to follow a trail of clues to prove that their parents are innocent. Each book holds all the adventures that Aiden and Meg get into on the way to saving their parents. A great series by Mrs. Loughrin's favorite author, Gordon Korman. Once you start reading the books, it is hard to put them down!

Battle of the Books - Final Competition

The 4 fifth grade boys who were competing in the Statewide Battle Competition battled on February 25th. They scored 210 points out of the possible 375 points. We sent in that score to be compared to the other scores in the state of Wisconsin.

There was a tie for 1st place. Pleasant View Elementary School in Antigo and Green Lake Elementary School in Green Lake. These teams tied with 360 points!

We will do Battle of the Books again next year. I will let next years 4th and 5th grade students know the books hopefully by the end of this school year. Next year will we be more active in discussing the books and learning them inside out.

Get ready for Battle of the Books 2010!