Monday, February 21, 2011

Bluebonnet Voting at Moye

Fifth grader boys voting online.
During the last week of January, third, fourth and fifth grade Moye Mountain Lions voted for their favorite Bluebonnet book.  The Hinky Pink, That Book Woman, 14 Cows for America and The Uglified Ducky were among the twenty nominated titles read by the children at Moye.  This year, the Texas Bluebonnet Award committee created an online voting experience for program participants that had the feel of a national Presidential election.  Most of the children on campus had the opportunity to visit the Mackin Booktalk website through the TBA website and to vote online.  
Fifth grade girls cast their votes!
A total of 252 students voted, selecting The Hinky Pink by Megan McDonald as their favorite Bluebonnet book for 2010-2011.  Coming in second, was The Uglified Ducky by Willie Claflin and third place went to 14 Cows for America.  The students at Moye have an excellent history of picking the winning Bluebonnet title as chosen by students across the state and this year was no exception.  Our second place winner was the first place winner across Texas and our first place choice was the second place winner across the state.  Great work, Mountain Lions! 
 

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Brrrr! January!

Fifth grade students using Britannica Online.

Fourth graders doing soil research.
Fourth graders making soil folders.
A lot of great things happened in the Moye library during the month of January.  Fourth and fifth graders began research on soil and the planets, respectively, using print resources and Encyclopedia Britannica Online.  The fourth graders used the mouse (mice?) to manipulate a photograph of the layers of soil and the fifth graders were able to see actual photographs of the planet they were studying.  The Britannica Online database is wonderful because students can highlight passages and see a Spanish translation of the English text and can opt to have the text read aloud to the them by the computer. 

First Day of Winter
Pre-kindergartners built a snowman after reading the cumulative tale The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming.  We used a chart paper snowman as our "canvas" and added to him a variety of things - one red cap, two (blue) mittens, three striped scarves...ten peanut toes -   to make him look like the snowman in the book.  Each class posed for a picture with their snowman creation and Ms. Manso and Ms. Blanco combined efforts to make a very CHILL display outside the library door.