Monday, January 2, 2017

Ready to Start a New Year

The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas was busy and fun in the library.  Spanish students came in and took pictures so they could write sentences in Spanish showing that they understand the language.  This was a great opportunity for students to incorporate using their phones or cameras, downloading those photos, and uploading images into a presentation while working on their Spanish skills.

Mrs. Arenz's Careers class used virtual reality to see a few different occupations: a metal artisan, lawyer, pilot, and animal explorer.  Ms. Paikowski's class when on tours of some of the United States national parks.

Mrs. Grau's social studies classes were in working on research and creating presentations on different states. Students used Google's explore tool to allow them to find image that they are free to use and modify.  For the students previous presentations they were shared with students in New Glarus who gave great feedback on what worked well and what they found challenging with the students presentations.  Mrs. Grau's students used the information given to improve their presentations this time around.

Many of the language arts classes had their students come to the library to check out books for the winter break.  It is always fun to help the students pick out books and discuss their book selection with them.

Book Club was held in the library where the discussion of the books the students read was incredible. The students shared great insight on the books they read and had many suggestions for books to read next month.  I'm looking forward to seeing how they like next months books.

Study hall students have been using the Sphero balls, Ozobot, and Makey Makey to create a variety of things in our MakerSpace.  After winter break students will be working on creating art with our new 3D pen.

2017 is bound to bring many great projects, activities, books, and learning in the library!