tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19220998310524892352024-03-05T22:14:29.116-08:00H.R. Moye LibraryH.R.Moye Library WebpageLeslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-64795008658708881432016-04-09T16:35:00.002-07:002016-04-09T16:35:55.784-07:00blah blah blahLeslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-37240436921549475792014-08-20T15:17:00.005-07:002018-10-19T21:58:49.018-07:00Writing a New Blog<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not sure if anyone is out there...but if you are reading this, you might be interested to know that starting today I am writing a new blog...about my life after retirement. Could be a real snooze-fest but I hope that by committing to writing about my life, I will commit to living a richer one! You can find me at <a href="http://onceuponatimehappilyeverafter.com/" target="_blank">onceuponatimehappilyeverafter.com</a></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hope to reconnect with you there.</span></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br />
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<br />Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-5747458949523152692013-04-28T21:26:00.001-07:002013-04-28T21:26:40.196-07:00What have YOU Learned in the Library?<span style="color: #76a5af;">I was playing on Pinterest as I often do before bed and stumbled across this awesome <a href="http://www.crsd.org/page/552" target="_blank">scope and sequence</a> for the elementary school library-media center curriculum developed by the Council Rock School District in Newton, Pennsylvania. I think it will be helpful as I prepare for the End of Year Family Night this week at Moye. I have been asked to present what the children have learned in the library this year and coincidentally, this scope and sequence provides an excellent outline of the instruction I have provided our mountain lions. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">I hope to be able to interview a few students from each grade level to get some direct quotes from our babies about what they have learned in the library in their own words. I can list all of the things I think and hope the children have learned but hearing it from the proverbial "horse's mouth" or out of the "mouth of babes" will be more meaningful and more direct. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">Stay tuned here for more about my presentation and what the children tell me about their year in the library.</span><br />
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Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-12329991670907343152013-02-13T20:12:00.000-08:002013-02-13T20:12:27.377-08:00Thank Heaven for Little Girls<b><span style="color: #741b47;">This has been a difficult school year. I have gone from feeling optimistic in October to feeling discouraged and sad in February. But the students at Moye always find the most amazing ways to boost my spirits and make everything all better. Yesterday, while teaching a class in the library, one of our sweet third grade girls came to the library to bring me a very special treat. I found her gift, a snow globe with a cross on top, beside my computer after I finished teaching but I wasn't sure which wonderful third grade girl had remembered me with the thoughtful surprise. </span> </b><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Today the students in 3C came to the library to finish the lesson we started yesterday and I learned that the snow globe was the gift of Valeria D. I can't begin to explain how very meaningful Valeria's beautiful present was to me. I have been struggling with some decisions in my life but Valeria helped me see my way more clearly. There is no where I would rather be than working with the best babies in the world at H.R. Moye Elementary School and I think Valeria was the messenger of that message from God to me. </b></span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-91772036220271988222012-10-02T19:22:00.005-07:002012-10-02T19:30:17.594-07:00Feeling RUSHED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">The school year is just underway but I am feeling as if it should be May...hey, that rhymes. Ms. Manso and I have had the library schedule in place for several weeks and by Friday, we will have seen all of the classes at least once and some of the classes twice. For six years, Ms. Manso and I have worked side-by-side, complementing each other and kind of sharing responsibility for getting all of the work done. Of course, nothing is ever completely <i>done</i> but we have worked well together, tackling all that we have to do, a little bit at a time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This year, with all of the district's problems and scandals, I believe the employees of EPISD are under the microscope. Because Ms. Manso is paid with Title I funds, her duties in the library are being scrutinized and examined to determine which of her job responsibilities fall under the stringent government guidelines for Federal money. We are still seeking clarification as to what Lorena can and cannot do but it is beginning to look like all of the book-related responsibilities are 'no-nos' and the large majority of her time now must be spent working hands on with me in instruction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Until this year, Ms. Manso and I have had a kind of choreography to our chores. I handle all of the instruction, Lorena handles most of the book processing and most of the circulation of books, and we share lesson preparation tasks. She shelves many more books than I do while I seem to be drowning in paperwork that I have to tend to. But the way we have worked together has been a kind of library ballet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am worried what the government guidelines will mean to the way we work in the library. If you find books waiting to be shelved spilling out of the library into the main lobby at school, you will know that I am drowning in returned books that Lorena may not be allowed to shelve. I appreciate your patience with the two of us and we adjust and adapt to the changes to our work. And welcome any help with shelving!</span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-29457686194464416472012-09-12T19:56:00.000-07:002012-09-12T19:56:26.116-07:00Guess Who?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">See the picture to the right? Guess who this boy is? You guessed it... William McCoin. I finally met William McCoin! I hope that this year I can close the library up in June without wondering who any of my students are. Everyone of them should be able to come to the library on a regular basis...despite STAAR test preparations, cohorts, or tutoring. I would like to think that the library activities we do just reinforce all of the good learning that is happening in our classrooms. </span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-74452152623368794712012-09-06T19:45:00.001-07:002012-09-06T19:45:17.709-07:00I Finally Met the McCoins!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">Today as I was busily adding the children's names into the circulation database, two little girls from 3B came into the library. Itzel had accompanied Rosemary to tell me that Rosemary was unable to take an AR test and to ask me to check her account. My computer was working very slowly so I asked Rosemary for her complete name and her ID number. Imagine my surprise when she told me her last name was McCoin! Today I finally met Rosemary McCoin! And tomorrow, Rosemary is going to introduce me to her brother William. Then I will be able to say I know the McCoins and can look forward to having them become regular library patrons.</span></span></span></div>
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Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-10555955400141058792012-05-07T21:42:00.005-07:002012-05-07T21:42:58.353-07:00I Still Haven't Met the McCoin ChildrenI am sad to report that I still haven't met the McCoin children. They came to our school some time shortly after the spring semester began. Ms. Manso or I put them in the circulation database so they could check out books. We added them to Accelerated Reader Enterprise so they could take AR tests. We might have even given William McCoin the STAR diagnostic test so we could determine his reading level. But roughly four months later, I am sad to report....
I still haven't met the McCoin children...face-to-face that is.
Today William's fourth grade teacher came by the library to let me know that her class will be able to come for last minute research on Thursday and that I might finally meet Mr. McCoin! We talked about how long it has been since 4A has come to the library...weeks and weeks. We talked about how a 45 minute library visit every two weeks is certainly not going to negatively impact state standardized skills assessment scores and might even improve scores. And we wondered who we can convince of this so that the library schedule doesn't stop abruptly with the beginning of spring semester and the STAAR test crunch next year.
Alas, who are we to make such decisions...just a lowly librarian and a fourth grade teacher. Two educators who believe that by collaborating we can provide our students with educational experiences to better prepare them for life beyond H.R. Moye Elementary. Why won't anyone listen?Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-59435476933940839672012-04-26T18:08:00.001-07:002012-04-26T18:08:25.603-07:00<!-- hitwebcounter Code START -->
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<span style="color: #45818e;">It has occurred to me that I am not sure what to write on my library blog. In the past, I have used my website to keep track of and report on the "goings on" in our library. But then I would turn around a put basically the same kind of stuff on my blog. Kind of redundant you say? I agree! Especially when I actually had TWO websites going (my original website through Google which became too large to add more pictures to and my newer, replacement website through Weebly) that shared the same information that I wound up posting a third time here. But I don't really have any followers - or not many - of my blog and/or my website(s), so in the grand scheme of things, does it matter if I even post anything anywhere at all?</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">But here I am at lunch on a Thursday in April, pondering these deep kinds of questions like 'what does one write on a blog?' and I have decided that I will begin posting new ideas and pilot projects on my blog in hopes that someone will happen along and comment on them. And then I will post pictures and share information on library activities at H.R. Moye. And if you are reading this and can offer some insight about the difference in blogs and websites and how I should be using each, I would welcome your suggestions. </span></h3>
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<br /><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #76a5af;">Sooo...a few weeks ago over spring break, I met with fellow EPISD librarian Lisa Lopez who works at Zavala Elementary School to receive her kind donation of the Little Free Library for H.R. Moye. The Little Free Library idea originated with Todd Bol and Rick Brooks in hopes of 'building a sense of community and a love of reading' with their cranberry crate little free libraries. Learn more about the humble beginnings of this magnificent project at </span><a href="http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/index.html." style="color: #c27ba0;">http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/index.html.</a><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></span></h3>
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The Little Free Library project came to El Paso when Lisa Lopez introduced the program to her school community at Zavala Elementary. In a no time, Zavala was on the news locally and nationally, sharing the success of their first Little Free Library and have since implemented a second LFL outside the school. Eager to share her experience and encourage other area librarians to join the LFL craze, Lisa donated a cranberry crate library to the students at H.R. Moye and the rest is...history...in the making!</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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 <u>The Hat</u> 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. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">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 <u>Horton Hatches an Egg</u>, and identified the ways the characters changed from the beginning to the end of the book. First graders read <u>My Many Colored Days</u> 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. </span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-76781827320803233702012-01-23T20:21:00.000-08:002012-01-23T20:21:38.520-08:00Blue is for...<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">... Bluebonnets and Bluebonnet Voting and Blueberry Pie!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Somehow the fall semester has come and go, and the Christmas holiday with it, and we are well into January and it is time to vote for our favorite Bluebonnet Book. The students in third, fourth and fifth grades will be voting all week on the library computers. Before each class votes, we are taking a look at the books that we have shared together on this year's Master List and determining what genre they fall under and what the author's purpose was in writing the book. We are making genre pies and adding the titles of the books we have read under the correct slice ~ narrative, poetry or expository. The students and I are taking things one step further by determining the "sub-genre" for each book, so once we decide a book is expository, we figure out if it is a memoir, biography, autobiography or informational text. Doing so has helped me see the balance in the overall Master List and helped the children realize the merits and pleasure of reading all types of books.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Stay tuned for the results of our voting!</span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-57152473092039796942011-11-14T19:49:00.001-08:002011-11-14T20:02:45.214-08:00<div style="background-color: white;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ooops! Change of plan...I nixed </span><u style="background-color: white;">Black Elk's Vision</u><span style="background-color: white;"> and substituted another biography to use with third grade and some of our bilingual fourth grade classes...</span><u style="background-color: white;">The Hallelujah Flight</u><span style="background-color: white;">
by Phil Bildner, illustrated by John Holyfield, and I am sooo glad I
did! Great, great book. The kids loved it, got into the story, enjoyed
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Planning on making Stone Soup with second grade next week, and doing lessons on biographies using some great Bluebonnet nominees from this year's Master List with our third, fourth and fifth graders. <a href="http://www.txla.org/TBA-nominees" target="_blank">http://www.txla.org/TBA-nominees</a> . The books I plan on using are <u>Black Elk's Vision</u>, <u>Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott</u>, and <u>The Extraordinary Mark Twain</u>. I am thinking we will make biography cubes with information about each person's life - <a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/bio_cube/" target="_blank">Bio Cubes </a></span></span><span style="color: #990000;">.</span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-69303562218608289002011-09-14T17:50:00.002-07:002011-09-14T17:50:59.459-07:00<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Moye's Smallest Mountain Lions Visit the Library</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The youngest students have visited the library this week for an orientation on caring for library materials. We shared a book entitled <u>A Book of Hugs</u> by Dave Ross and practiced several of the hugs described by the author including the brother hug, sister hug, arm hug and knee hug. The children were great fun and eager participants when it came time to HUG! We also viewed a PowerPoint presentation featuring my granddaughter, Cady. The slide show compares the ways that book care is similar to caring for a baby, including the way we hold our books/babies with two hands, the way we keep the two clean and dry, the way we use quiet voices in the library and when talking to a baby. I showed the children a video clip of Cady sifting through Brennyn and Corey's junk mail and we all shared a good laugh. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The prekinder and kinder students colored diapers on paper doll babies. The first graders made origami diapers. All of the students lined up at the door to receive kisses on their heads while being sure to give their books a two-handed hug.</span></span></span></span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-84941780197203628312011-09-14T17:50:00.001-07:002011-09-14T17:50:12.138-07:00Junk Mail<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v17FNr2RyIU?fs=1" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" width="480"></iframe>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-44063258480289270622011-09-08T14:59:00.000-07:002011-09-14T18:11:03.781-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful, restful summer...I know I did! I am happy to be back to school, though, and looking forward to seeing our second, third, fourth and fifth grade students this week for a quick introduction to Accelerated Reader (2nd grade) or the Bluebonnet Reading Program (3rd, 4th and 5th grades). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also, be sure to check out the story written by my dad in September's issue of <i>Military Magazine</i>. The story is based on his days as a paratrooper at the end of World War II. I have put the magazine and a picture of my father on the sofa table that Ms. Blanco donated to the library. The story is patriotic, funny and touching. I love having bits and pieces of my family in the library with me. </span></span></span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-59563710200801160142011-05-30T18:21:00.000-07:002011-05-30T18:21:36.557-07:00Cady Visits the Library<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="color: #e69138;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">As the school begins to wind down and with the TAKS testing behind us, Moye students</span> </i><b><span style="font-size: large;">S p r I n G</span></b> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>into research. As a finale' to their polar animal research, my sweet second graders made penguin pencil holders from painted soup cans. The final product was adorable! </i></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lezley and her delicious quilt.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The subject of their final research experience was Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. We began by reading a brief biography and the historical fiction picture book <u>Aunt Harriet and the Underground Railroad</u>. The children completed a graphic organizer using print and online information then created quilts squares using graham crackers, icing and a combination of mini-marshmallows, gumdrops, Nerds, and sprinkles. The edible quilts were symbolic of the quilts sometimes used as maps for runaway slaves or the quilts used to signal a safe house along the path of the Underground Railroad. </i></span></div><div style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Carmen appears to be captivated with database information.</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div style="color: #e69138;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>In April, the fourth grade did a quick research activity on Native Americans that combined writing with drawing information on a graphic organizer I created. We used online databases to find pictures to further illustrate the various Native American tribes. The children have become very adept at using the computers and online databases to locate information and to expand their subject searches. </i></span></div><div style="color: #e69138;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Cranes at the base of Sadako's statue.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Fourth grade girls using the databases.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Fourth grade's final research revolved around learning about Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who died in Hiroshima, Japan after exposure to radiation left by the atomic bomb dropped on that city. The kiddos used information available on Britannica Online to learn about the Peace Memorial Park dedicated to those whose lives were taken or forever changed by the explosion of the bomb. They even learned how to write in Japanese! We saw pictures of origami cranes created by children around the world and lain to rest at the base of the statue memorializing Sadako's short life. I have been searching for a simple step-by-step set of directions for making origami cranes and hope that we can each make one before the school year's end. </i></span></div><div style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Finally, my sweet fifth graders! I have seen so little of these babies this year because so much of their school experience revolves around preparing for the blessed TAKS test. But at long last, late this spring they have been able to come to the library! As a part of the college readiness curriculum, the children came to the library and used reference materials, books on the various states, and a wonderful website - collegeboard.com - to find information about a number of colleges and universities across the country. They completed a worksheet about the state and school assigned them and created a visual product - poster, banner, foldable to present the information to students throughout the school.</i></span></div>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-28972319963340999762011-05-24T18:38:00.000-07:002011-05-25T19:23:53.910-07:00April!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr style="color: #3d85c6;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easter surprise basket for RIF.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Students in 2A shopping at the AR store.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lorena and I share a hug on School Library Day.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-69083774035628103352011-05-24T18:19:00.000-07:002011-05-24T18:21:28.465-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTEgAbFSe5duxTqcgucuhyo-i4xZF6FWxnuS5iIrX-X752mel3QpsoWcW2eESAkfPJWjiKuNUnzXtKiWkwQlbXesoLziklANE0oBmgT3-PC-s7qbsRkAlzxAm8YLjEV_EdloFIWCkc9dY/s1600/M%2526Ms+3-31-11+010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTEgAbFSe5duxTqcgucuhyo-i4xZF6FWxnuS5iIrX-X752mel3QpsoWcW2eESAkfPJWjiKuNUnzXtKiWkwQlbXesoLziklANE0oBmgT3-PC-s7qbsRkAlzxAm8YLjEV_EdloFIWCkc9dY/s200/M%2526Ms+3-31-11+010.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;">In April, the M&Ms met for some jigsaw puzzle building fun. The children were adorable as they worked in groups of three or four students to put together assorted book and movie character puzzles. The mentors moved around from table to table cheering the children on and fitting an occasional piece into a puzzle. It was refreshing to watch the teamwork among the kids and even between groups as they worked until every table completed at least one puzzle. It was especially refreshing that the children didn't seek a prize for solving a puzzle. The gratification of completing the puzzle was reward enough. Bravo, M&Ms, bravo!</span></div>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922099831052489235.post-79083203194879842812011-03-29T19:16:00.000-07:002011-03-29T19:25:02.760-07:00March Mouse Madness at Moye<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KC prepares to act out <u>If You Give a Mouse a Cookie</u>.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #783f04;">The H.R. Moye kinders were such fun as they used props to act out the story after hearing it read aloud. Each child had some item from the story - a glass, a gallon milk container, a straw, a napkin, even a broom and mop. We used my daughters' old plastic kitchen and our plush mouse doll to help us set the stage. As I retold the story, the children with the appropriate item or prop came forward to act out the action on that particular page of the book. I am not sure who had more fun, the librarian or the children!</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mouse colors a picture of his family.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Third graders watched PowerPoints about the Dewey Decimal System and the neighborhoods in the library. We discussed the purpose of the call number as the specific address for a book within a neighborhood or collection in the library. Children identified the call numbers for the nonfiction, fiction, easy, biography and reference neighborhoods. I divided the students into groups of three or four students then gave each group a collection of small items to sort. Each group of children had to devise a plan for sorting the little objects and then organize the buttons, erasers, foam shapes, beads and be able to explain to their classification system. After careful consideration, almost every group figured out a classification system similar to the way nonfiction books are organized by subject and assigned a Dewey number. In several classes, the children even sorted tiny foam princesses, crowns, slippers and magic wands together into a category they called fairy tale things! Better known to librarians as the 398.2 section! Be still my heart!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now that the snow has melted and temperatures are warming, I am looking forward to spring but will always remember the almost magical hush of February's falling snowflakes. Lazy snow days bring out the child in all of us and you can be sure that next year, I will try my luck at snow dancing again.</span></span></span>Leslie Roberts Clinganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039535360693452031noreply@blogger.com0