Library Crafts

 Stick Puppets made at the Extended Day Library Crafts Club:



 Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Ugli dolls

1st Grade Social Studies: Jobs

Jokes into Comics

Our student teacher, Max G., has been doing lessons on comics.  Third graders chose a joke from one of the joke books in the library and adapted it to the comic strip format.

Readers' Theater!

Fourth and fifth graders performed their readers theater for a first/second grade Spanish class. They read two plays sprinkled with Spanish words: Judy Freeman's adapatation of The Barking Mouse (from the book Once Upon a Time) and an adaptation of Skippyjon Jones. It was muy divertido!

Library Advocacy & Math

Stephanie's fourth and fifth graders learned that the total budget for library books--from New York State--is $6.25 per child per year. We figured that that meant that their class would be entitled to $137.50. We set up a "bookstore" in the library, and teams were given a budget of $137.50 to buy books for their class. Students learned that there would only be 6-8 books available for their whole class to share. This was enlightening to them and their teacher and has sparked them to do an advocacy project on behalf of school libraries in our state. Using their letter-writing skills, following a unit on persuasive writing, many students decided to contact our state senator to lobby for more funds for school libraries.