Fast and Furious February

The shortest month of the year was one day longer this year with Leap Day, but it still went by with the blink of an eye.  (Hey, that rhymes!)  We celebrated Valentine's day and Dr. Seuss-Read Across America week; the upper grade students have been unable to come to the library for the most part because of the pressure to prepare for the STAAR test, but those who did come, reviewed the arrangement of the library and the Dewey Decimal System. 

The younger Moye mountain lions had lessons on hibernation, using and comparing fiction and nonfiction books on animals that hibernate.  They also listened to the story The Hat by author Jan Brett and completed a hat-shaped worksheet where they were asked to write the beginning, middle and ending events in the story as well as the author's purpose.  

During Dr. Seuss week, the students, faculty and staff wore crazy socks one day, crazy hats another, and made birthday cards to wish Dr. Seuss a happy birthday.  In the library, we made the Cat in the Hat and shared some of Dr. Seuss's less well known books written under his pen name Theo. LeSieg.  Second graders listened to my favorite Seuss story Horton Hatches an Egg, and identified the ways the characters changed from the beginning to the end of the book.  First graders read My Many Colored Days and made little paper dolls like the characters in the book and writing about how certain colors make them feel.  Dr. Seuss week helps all of us to feel young or young at heart again.