Busy, Busy in the Library and Tech Lab!

The New Year has started off with plenty of activity in the school library and the technology lab!  Check out these photos of students of all ages learning about everything from penguins' struggle to survive and the life of Martin Luther King - to  grammar apps to how to create a QR Code to researching the USA to developing autobiographical PowerPoint presentations.


Technology Lab Substitute Teacher Mr. Paul Clark helps
5th graders use an iPad to answer questions to a Math
quiz. The quiz required students to scan QR Codes that gave
information needed to answer an array of math questions. The 5th
grade also learned how to CREATE their own QR codes! Look for
the codes around the school building in the coming weeks!



Second graders get competitive playing the iPad app

Bluster. The game tests their skills matching rhyming

words, synonyms, homophones, word roots, etc.

Mrs. Blanchette's third grade was the first to

finish THE WILLOUGHBYS by Lois Lowry.

Library teacher Ms. Silag read this favorite of hers

aloud at the start of library class for several weeks.  The

book introduced us to many sophisticated words and we

were all quite please with the "old-fashioned"ending!



 

Kindergartners do the Penguin Shuffle during a Library

Lesson about the Emperor Penguin's life in the frigid

 Antarctic. They shuffled together through the

 "wind"  to keep penguin "eggs"safe and warm

in the frigid Antarctic. All our eggs survived!

 We agreed being a penguin is hard work!

Fourth grader Ben G. uses library books

and online sources found on the iPad

to research the state of Montana.  The project

is a collaboration between the Library and Tech Lab

and integrates research skills, technology skills

and Social Studies.  The end product will be a

travel brochure on each state in the USA!