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Storytelling festival entertains students before holiday break - sandmountainreporter.com: Education: Santa stopped by Big Spring Lake Kindergarten Friday, and everyone got to play in the reindeer games.

What a week in the library!!! We started the week off with a little holiday drama, Llama Llama Holiday Drama  by Anna Dewdeny. One day even all the students had on pajamas, so Llama Llama fit right in wearing his red pajamas.

To wrap up all the holidrama...we finished up the week by finding out what happened to the Gingerbread Baby. We read Gingerbread Friends  by Jan Brett and learned Mattie made him 15 friends. We had a Storytelling Festival and children visited the library, music room to sing Christmas songs, lunchroom to make a Christmas craft and gym to play reindeer games. What a fun day to end the week!

Another exciting week in the library. Can't believe the school year is half way over...we have so much more fun to come! This week we finally got to go inside the gingerbread house. What other book would we read than one about gingerbread, we read The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. Wonder what happened to the gingerbread baby once Mattie got him home?

What a fun week we had in the library, we got wear 'pajamas' in the library!!! We read llama llama red pajama by Anna Dewdney so we had to wear pajamas.

Did you know books are a lot like us? Well, they are and we learned that this week when we read A Book Is Just Like You by Kathleen Fox. Just for fun, yes you can read just for fun! We read Margret and H.A. Rey's Curious George Visits the Library what a silly monkey! George loves books and the library just like us.

Mr. Wiggle loves books and so do we! This week we learned the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. Mr. Wiggle Loves to Read by Carol Thompson taught us fiction books are make believe and non-fiction books are true.

Duck decided he did not like the hard farm life and thought it would be easy to be President! Read Duck for President by Doreen Cronin and find out if Duck was elected President. We discussed our country, voting and Veteran's this week. Thank you to all who have and are serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.

What a wild week in Kindergarten!!! Ms Virginia Creeper was our guest librarian this week. She read Miss Smith and the Haunted Library by Michael Garland.  Miss Creeper read the Incredible Storybook and 'creepy' characters popped out to join Miss Smith's class. Ask you child about the characters and which one followed Miss Smith's class back to school.

This week we discussed Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship. I stressed to the students when at home they need a grown up to help them find a computer site that is 'kid friendly'. Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann was a fun book to read and Safety Tip #101 is the most important. Read the book to find out the safety tip.

A Visit From Mike Artell

The students really enjoyed a visit from Mike Artell! It was great to hear him tell the story of Petite Rouge and ole Claude de Gator. He shared pictures of his family and we found out one of his daughters is and Auburn graduate. Each child had the opportunity to draw with Mr. Mike, race cars, dinosaurs, castle, animals and silly faces, the students loved it! We have some wonderful artist at BSLK!

Fee Fi Fo Fum...

This week we read Jacqes and the Beanstalk by Mike Artell. We read the story in the giant's castle and then we found out he was watching us. (check out the pictures on the side) The students were excited to learn that Mike Artell is going to be visiting our school next week.

Be cool about fire safety!

Do you know what happens when a dragon sneezes? We read No Dragons for Tea  (Fire Safety for Kids) by Jean E. Pendziwol and found out! This week, we talked about fire safety and what do in a fire emergency. Please talk about fire safety at home, check batteries in your smoke detector and practice a home fire drill.

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle

This week in Library and Enrichment, students learned about recycling, keeping Albertville clean and saving the Earth. Library classes were visited by Michael Recycle aka Ms. Millwood and Enrichment classes were visited by Litterbug Doug aka Bernie. Albertville does have a recycling center, check out the Recycle link on my page. Recycling is really easy, just ask your child.

Apples, Apples, Books...

What a week at BSLK this week! We had the book fair in the library, Grandparent's Day, and a visit from Johnny Appleseed! Thank you to all the  Moms who helped with the book fair, could not have done it without you!! Johnny Appleseed visited each library class this week. Students learned about how he traveled west planting apple  seeds and how he was friend to the animals and everyone he met. Johnny Appleseed was a peacemaker.

Guess who visited the library this week?!

MISS SMITH !!! Miss Smith was our guest reader, will Ms. Millwood ever come back to the library? We read Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland and learned about book characters.  WOW! What a fun week in the library

Books! Books! Books!

We do not use shelf markers but it all works out.
A messy library shelf is a loved library shelf!

There are bats in our library! They loved it so much they decided to hang around. Students checked out their first library book, what fun!  Dr. Booklove visited the library this week. She taught students safe places to read their library book and how to keep their book healthy.   We read What Happened to Marion's Book? by Brooke Berg.  Marion did not take care of her library book. Ask your child what happened in the story.

WOW! Library is fun!

Students visited the library for the first time this week. What a fun trip! They all met Mr. Wiggles and Battyrella and listened to their favorite books. Mr.Wiggles' favorite book is School Bugs by David A. Carter and Battyrella's favorite book is Bats at the Library by Brian Lies. Will the bats visit our library tonight? Check back next week to find out.

Welcome to Kindergarten

What better way to start the year than with Chester and
The Kissing Hand  and Pete the Cat Rocking in my School Shoes. The teachers read these books to their classes. All classes will visit the library next week, what fun it will be for me and them!

Batty about the beach!

We finished our year  in the library with Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies. What a great way to end a great year! I hope the students had half as much as I did and will keep on reading.

Diving in....

We read Miss Smith Under the Ocean by Michael Garland. Oh how we love Miss Smith!! This is another great book to share with any age!

Earth Day is everyday!

This week we celebrated our planet Earth! We reviewed all we have talked about this year, recycle, reduce, reuse, pick up litter, plant a tree, save water and energy. The classes decided everyday should be Earth day because we need to help save our planet. I am very proud of all the students and have had a lot of fun teaching these lessons.

Miss Smith + Dinosaurs = FUN

This week we read Miss Smith Reads Again  by Michael Garland. We love Miss Smith and her Incredible Storybook! Learning about dinosaurs has been fun, now we are ready to dive into the ocean!!

DI-NO-SAUR

What a fun way to start the week, with dinosaurs!! We learned about fossils, dinosaurs and paleontologist! We read What is a Dinosaur? by Chris Arvetis and Carole Palmer. We really loved the song "I am a Paleontologist" by They Might Be Giants.

Can cows type?!

We started our farm unit this week by reading Click Clack Moo Cows That Type  by Doreen Cronin. The students really enjoyed this book and checking out her other books.

Farmer Millwood 

Make Good Choices

This week we read Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola. Big Anthony did not make a good choice! Find out what his bad choice cause him. Whew, glad we make good choices!!

Just follow your dream!

This week we started a unit on Tomie dePaola. The students were amazed to find out he wanted to draw pictures and write books at the age of 4 and he has illustrated over 200 books! We read The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola. After children checked out books they were able to draw a picture of whatever they wanted to draw using crayons, markers or color pencils. We sent several drawings to Tomie dePaola and hope to hear back from him before we get out for summer!

What did you see on the way to school?

Do you know Dr. Seuss' real name?
We do. Dr. Seuss wrote 44 books, we learned that too. This week we learned some facts about Dr. Seuss and read And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street. We have had a lot of fun reading Dr. Seuss books and learning about him.

Not love books?!?!

I absolutely love this book, the little girl is by far one of my most favorite characters! Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I don't)  by Barbara Bottner is a most read for every librarian, teacher, and parent! I loved this book the first time I read it because I can relate to Miss Brooks. But the more I read it the more I fell in love with little girl who does not love books (that is who I am dressed as in the above picture). Her personality just shines in this book and you can't help but be her! All of my kindergarten children loved this book and the 1st grade class I read too for Read Across America. I will be reading this book for many years!!

Read Across America Week

 We kicked off the week with dress as your favorite book character! Check us out...creative folks!

Trees, trees, save the trees!

This week to kick off Read Across America and in honor of the Lorax we read Who Will Plant a Tree? by Jerry Pallotta. I told the students a little about Dr. Seuss and the Lorax, more details to come! But we learned a lot about who, what and how trees are planted! Be sure to add this book to your reading list, it is a must.

Friends = Love

Red, pink and purple hearts! No matter the color or size, hearts are a great way to let your friends know how much you care. Our lesson this week was about being a good friend. We read Love, Splat by Rob Scotton.  We also watched "Franklin's Valentine" a great little video about friendship. To end the class we made Valentine hearts for all our special area staff.