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First and second grade students at Richmond Elementary School in Richmond, Vermont have selected Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions as our schoolwide Red Clover (Children's Choice Award) book for 2017-2018!  During their library classes, the students all read or listened to 10 of the best illustrated books from the 2016 publishing year. The selection included fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and a folktale. Then each student voted for his or her favorite. Whoosh! received twice as many votes as the second place choice, Frankencrayon by Michael Hall. Whoosh! is the biography of engineer and inventor Lonnie Johnson, whose best known creation is the Super Soaker toy water gun. Johnson is an amazing role model for his curiosity and persistence, and students loved reading about his work for NASA and his model rockets. The book was created by author Chris Barton and  illustrator Don Tate. One student asked the librarian, "Where are the res...

Third graders researching pioneer schools and home crafts, Northern Paiute activist Sarah Winnemucca, and more November 2017 at the RES library, by the numbers: Number of library books and other materials checked out by RES scholars, families, and staff:  1425 --  that's 84 per day  in our four weeks of school this month Number of TumbleBooks electronic books read and listened to : 727 Number of scholar visits to the library:  over 700  (14 classes per week plus additional class visits plus individual visits) Number of times scholars used the PebbleGo nonfiction research database: 237 Number of third graders who researched topics about explorers, settlers, and the Westward Expansion movement in the United States: 50  (see related blog post )

Which resources will help me answer my questions? Third graders visited the library this week to do research about how Americans moved westward across the country. The scholars selected from print and digital resources to learn more about topics ranging from pioneer homes to the the importance of Crazy Horse. They will be using the information they learned to complete projects in their classrooms and their enrichment time with Mrs. Rankin. We are very proud of all of our history researchers! photo credit: Mrs. Girouard at  @RESgrade3