RES Library Media Center News

 One-word concrete poem: "Flying" Can you see the "L" flying? In collaboration with their classroom unit on poetry, RES second graders have been learning about and writing concrete poems in their library classes. Concrete poems, also known as shape poems, are poems where the arrangement of words or letters on the page add to the meaning of the poem. Students shared several books of concrete poetry, then they wrote their own. We are so impressed with their creativity!

Fourth graders are creating presentations to share what they have learned over the course of their Capstone Projects in enrichment library class. Below are a few examples of the presentations-in-progress and the research questions they answer. We are incredibly proud of all of our fourth grade scholars for their thoughtfulness and hard work on these projects! - Darcie Rankin, enrichment teacher and Beth Redford, library media specialist. Video of computer components How do computers work? Model of treehouse with labels How do you build a treehouse? video game, programmed with Bloxels How do you code a video game? Trifold poster and iMovie How do volcanoes erupt? How did Harry Houdini do his magic tricks? Time-lapse video of LEGO model being constructed How and why was the Taj Mahal built?

Our friends in the 3LT class at Renaissance College Hong Kong commented on the voicethreads second graders created about Chinese culture! Our friends' comments are the later (bottom) comments on the slides if you would like to see or hear them. Mrs. Robinson's Class Miss Darling's class Mrs. Riggs' class

Fourth grader using Bloxels and computer coding to answer his research question "How do you code a video game?" April 2017 at the RES library, by the numbers: Number of library books and other materials checked out by RES scholars, families, and staff:  1267   --  that's  84  items per day in our 15 days of school this month Number of TumbleBooks electronic books read and listened to : 213 Number of times scholars used the PebbleGo nonfiction research database: 491 Number of times scholars used our new CultureGrams database to learn about geography and cultures:  281 Number of scholar visits to the library:  over 600  (14 classes per week plus additional class visits plus individual visits) Number of scholars served by librarian visits to  classrooms:  over 150 Number of fourth graders who started work on their Capstone Presentations to share the answers to their research questions: 48  

The Vermont   statewide winner and the RES winner of the Red Clover children's choice book award for illustrated books is... Meet the Dullards   by Sarah Pennypacker, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri The Vermont winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher children's choice award for longer books is... The Terrible Two by Jory John and Mac Barnett Illustrated by Kevin Cornell The RES winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher award is... Roller Girl Written and illustrated by Victoria Jamieson