Books are good! Books are great! I want books! I WILL NOT WAIT! Bird books, Bug books, Bear books too, Words and pictures Through and through. Books are good! Books are great! I want books! I WILL NOT WAIT! Books in color, Black and white, Skinny books, Fat books, Day and night. Books are good!… Read More Literacy Extravaganza 2018
Last week, Mrs. Bridges taught us how bees are essential to our environment…we learned so much! This week, we have another surprising environmental guest…a chicken farmer! Raising chickens means more than fresh eggs every morning! Chickens poo….alot(my nephew raises chickens and told me so). They can poo up to 50 times a day! This time… Read More Earth Kids Club: Week 22, 5/29
A zoo is a public place where living animals are kept in some type of enclosure. For aquatic animals, a zoo can be an aquarium, for the purpose of this debate we are including aquariums as zoos. We also feel that wildlife centers, safari parks, and refuge centers can be thought of as zoos. However,… Read More Should there be zoos?
I love my local farmers market! Buying locally produced food helps to protect the environment by lessening the transportation of goods, it supports the local economy, local farmers and it enables me to eat fresher food from a known source! This week the Earth Kids are going to meet a bee keeper! Bees are some of… Read More Earth Kids Club: Week 21, 5/22
For today’s students, recycling is a way of life. But that doesn’t mean students understand why we recycle. More than ever, that’s important for students to know! A great place to go to start the learning process is Recycle City, a Web site from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). By clicking different sections of… Read More Earth Kids Club: Week 20, 5/15
As a society we depend on the many convenient products that are available to us, and nowhere is it easier to use prepackaged food, than when packing a school lunch. Most of us pack lunch items in single-use plastic bags, aluminum foil, or wax paper, or purchase single-serving items like chips, cookies and yogurts, that… Read More Waste-Free Lunch Week
This week is library students will read. “This is My Book” by Mark Prett. What happens when a writer learns that he doesn’t quite have as much control over his book as he thinks? When Mark Pett’s characters, led by a panda bear named Spike, take over his book and begin telling a story of their… Read More Origami Book Corner