Library BlogLibrary Bloghttp://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2010-02-18T21:59:08ZSquarespaceWe're Building Castles in the Library!!!http://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2010/2/18/were-building-castles-in-the-library.htmlOther School Editors2010-02-18T20:17:43Z2010-02-18T20:17:43ZWe've just had two weeks of a castle-building in the Library- it's a Kindergarten Expert group...and it has been FUN. (Who needs to travel to England to see castles!?) Here are some photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

]]>Mexican Mural Hangs in the Libraryhttp://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2010/2/10/mexican-mural-hangs-in-the-library.htmlOther School Editors2010-02-10T19:35:53Z2010-02-10T19:35:53Z

Please come and see our new mural that hands in the library. The Mural expert group made this mural during the Mexican Cultural Study last month. It is titled, "Respect Nature."

 

]]>IT'S RED CLOVER TIME!!http://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2010/2/2/its-red-clover-time.htmlOther School Editors2010-02-02T21:12:51Z2010-02-02T21:12:51ZWe're starting to read the 10 Red Clover Books. In April, each K - 4 student will vote for their favorite. We'll find out which one is the Lincoln Community School favorite and which one is the State of Vermont's favorite. Ask your student which Red Clover books is their favorite so far. Here are the covers of the 10 books:

    

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

]]>Kindergarten is a Regular Publishing Company!!http://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2010/1/12/kindergarten-is-a-regular-publishing-company.htmlOther School Editors2010-01-12T21:18:25Z2010-01-12T21:18:25Z

We realized that the kindergarten class is a regular publishing company - they've been making plenty of books! Our latest was the What's Missing? book that kindergarteners made. They had a bag of objects that they would set up, then one object would be taken away. The reader would need to study the page and decide what is missing. Here's one spread from the book:

Can you see what object has been removed?

 

 

 

]]>Second Grade Makes A Bee Waggle Dance Animationhttp://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2010/1/12/second-grade-makes-a-bee-waggle-dance-animation.htmlOther School Editors2010-01-12T21:05:14Z2010-01-12T21:05:14Z 

Here's the animation project that the Second Grade just completed as part of their bee unit. It's about the Bee Waggle Dance. It's fantastic.

 

]]>First Graders "Step Right Up!"http://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2009/12/31/first-graders-step-right-up.htmlOther School Editors2009-12-31T17:06:04Z2009-12-31T17:06:04ZTiffany, Nancy the Art Teacher and Beth the Librarian, recently collaborated on a fun project in First Grade. Here's what we did:

1. We read the Red Clover Book, Sandy's Circus, by Tanya Lee Stone, illustrated by Boris Kulikow. This is a story about Alexander Calder and the circus that he created out of found objects.

2. We studied the circus and made characters figure drawings.

3. Each 1st grader chose two elements from the circus (like lion tamer and tent). They made watercolor

 

illustrations of those elements.

4. We collected found objects galore: bottle caps, clementine crate netting...you name it.

5. We made our circus figures out of those found objects.

6. Stay tuned for: a bulletin board display outside of the First Grade AND a movie made about the circus (on this very blog).

 

 

  

Tah-Dah! Our completed circus!

 

 

 

 

 

]]>Author/Illustrator Movies in First Gradehttp://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2009/12/3/authorillustrator-movies-in-first-grade.htmlOther School Editors2009-12-03T12:29:27Z2009-12-03T12:29:27ZFirst Grade goes Hollywood! Please watch two movies that some first graders made. One is about Leo Lionni and the other is about a relative newcomer - Oliver Jeffers. We studied the books that they made and used a flip camera to make these short movies.

]]>Writing "and then what happened?" stories in First Gradehttp://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2009/11/29/writing-and-then-what-happened-stories-in-first-grade.htmlOther School Editors2009-11-29T20:22:46Z2009-11-29T20:22:46ZIn Library Literacy Collaboration time a few weeks ago, we broke up into three groups. Each group read a classic version of a fairy tale. One read Rapunzel, another The Three Pigs and the last, Cinderella. Then each group wrote and illustrated a next chapter to each of these fairy tales. Come see them in the library.

                                                                 

    

]]>Presenting....Books Written in Kindergarten!!http://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2009/11/12/presentingbooks-written-in-kindergarten.htmlOther School Editors2009-11-12T19:58:40Z2009-11-12T19:58:40ZEach of the Early Reading Kindergarten Groups made a story. Here's the equation: one character (a small toy) + a camera + a setting in the story+ a plot (the character is trying to find something to do.) Here is the first group's story, featuring "Little Lady."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

   

]]>New Books in the Libraryhttp://www.lincolncs.org/library-blog/2009/11/12/new-books-in-the-library.htmlOther School Editors2009-11-12T19:43:50Z2009-11-12T19:43:50ZThere's nothing like getting a new box of books in the library!! Here are some:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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