Book handling, Dewey Decimal System, Digital Citizenship, and Engineering

Week 2 of the school year has to a close!

In Library here is a summary of what has been accomplished:

First, students read a required book based on a PBS show as a requirement for the WQLN reading challenge.  So, Ms. Sally read DW's Library Card to the younger students and Arthur's Teacher Trouble to the older students!

Additionally the students in grade K and 1 talked about book handling skills.  I used a worksheet that I found on Teachers Pay Teachers from ATBOT The Book Bug!

Second did another fun activity that I found on Teachers Pay Teachers a fun activity entitled "A _________ should not borrow a library book because he would ___________________"
Check out her blog post on this activity - Library Learners Blog.

Grade 3 and 4 worked collaboratively to create signage for the library.  Students were either assigned a range from the Dewey Decimal System OR a genre from the genrified fiction area.  The students had to find topics, themes, and more from the assigned area and design, draw, and hang a related poster!  Here are a few of the completed posters:

Students on Day 3 started to be able to check out library books with our working scanner and Follett Destiny System!

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STEAM:

The first and main goal of this week was to meet CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) requirements - especially step 2:

Schools subject to CIPA have two additional certification requirements: 1) their Internet safety policies must include monitoring the online activities of minors; and 2) as required by the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, they must provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response.

More information can be found at CIPA document and Federal Communications Commission.

Students in first through fourth grade watched videos from Brain Pop and Brain Pop Junior based on grade level.  Next the class went through the corresponding quiz online together.
Internet Safety - Brain POP and Brain POP Junior.

Finally, students were given time to be engineers.  This activity meant students had 10 minutes of time to build, create, imagine with KEVA planks and LEGOS.  Using the ISTE standards, I felt that this was a vital skill toward developing "Innovative Designers" as well as "Creative Communicator".

Students worked hard this week and here are a few pictures of some of the engineering results from STEAM as well as the pictures from the Book Care activity!