Today is Gallery Day and I can’t wait to share the wild work of our students with you all. I am happy to hear how many of you are enjoying “The Wild Robot” read aloud — and across all grades! Peter Brown has truly written a special story. We have “The Wild Robot Escapes” in our library learning commons too, an FYI. 😉
Here is a sneak peak of today’s awesome-sauceness:
Our École Mount Prevost’s ESW students’ wild robots, found in the wild, Grades K – 5:
MH, Grade 1, Wild Robot diorama:
I will add all to the work to the Student Gallery page by 3 pm today. If your child has work they would like to submit, please know I will accept work at any time, there is no deadline. The only reason I post at 3 on Fridays is to have as much work as possible revealed at once. I will however, add student work anytime after.
From the duo who brought you, “Dragon’s Love Tacos“, today’s story, “Robo-Sauce” is, well, awesome-sauce and the perfect ingredient to kick off Robot Week!
Tomorrow we design our robots for our robot builds on Thursday. When reading “Robo-Sauce” today, look at all of the interesting robots included in the story. See what type of robots give you ideas for your own robot design.
I sure enjoyed making the video and I’m happy to say I made our principal laugh when I showed him. Success! He thought the sound effects were funny too – robots make noises after all!
Find today’s reading of “Robo-Sauce” here:
Want to make your own Robo-Sauce? Check out the recipe here at Forks & Folly to make your own:
Welcome to our very first library lesson! Before we begin, I just wanted to explain two important points:
The password for Monday read alouds — or any read alouds for that matter – will always be the same. The password was emailed to parents by our school principal in a newsletter home Friday, April 10th. The password is also available on our school Library Learning Commons Facebook page. If you are still having trouble locating the password, please feel free to email Mme Zibin at dzibin@sd79.bc.ca.
If you would like to skip the daily lesson preamble or find the weekly lessons quickly, please visit the “Weekly Library Lessons” tab in the top right hand side of the main page. If you are on your iPad, you will have to turn the iPad to landscape to see the tabs.
How to locate the Weekly Library Lessons tab
Now let’s begin!
This week’s read aloud is the lovely story “Sidewalk Flowers” by author and award-winning poet JonArno Lawson. “Sidewalk Flowers” is a wordless picture book beautifully illustrated by artist Sydney Smith. Wordless? Don’t worry; I added my own story to share with you all!
Designed like a graphic novel, the story appears in panels. I had to read the illustrations really carefully to come up with the story! I also had the help of Melissa Rabbe, a student who did a project on the book and published her version on YouTube. I want to thank her for giving me direction for my version of the story.
From the back of the picture book:
“A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. [Beautifully] brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.”
Questions to think about before, during and after the story:
How do Tally’s gestures of kindness make the recipient feel afterwards? Why do you think this?
How do Tally’s gestures of kindness make her feel afterwards? Why do you think this?
Making Connections: Have you ever surprised someone with a kind gesture? Why? Explain.
Find my reading of the story here:
Epic Books
If you would like to read “Sidewalk Flowers” on your own, there is a copy available on the reading platform Epic Books. If you would like your child to have a free Epic Books account until the end of June, please email me and I will send you an invite and add your child to my class. Epic Books also has a ton of French at different reading levels!
Mme Zibin’s page on Epic Books
Tomorrow’s Activity
Tomorrow join me for a Neighbourhood Scavenger Hunt! What flowers will you find around you? How can we share the colour and beauty with others?
Welcome to the École Library Learning Commons webpage!
I have made this webpage to reach as many EMP families as possible as a result of the early closure of our school due to the Covid19 pandemic. For parents who are unaware, I also post regularly on my École Mount Prevost Library Learning Commons Facebook page and our EMP webpage has an LLC tab as well that links to online digital resources offered by our district.
The reason I have created this new website is to be able to post videos and lessons for your children during our absence from school. I cannot post these resources as easily on our district LLC page. In the near future, I will begin posting read alouds and reading response lessons for your children to participate in if your family chooses to do so. I will continue to post these lessons to the LLC page on Facebook as well, however not all families are on Facebook and able to access the lessons there.
By the end of this week, I will post a schedule of read alouds and themes for the month of April, as well as a list of optional activities to accompany the read alouds. If your child(ren) choose to participate in the optional activites, I would love for you to send me photos of her/his/their work for me to post here and on the Facebook LLC to share with other families in our school community, with your permission, of course!
Questions? Please feel free to email me at dzibin@sd79.bc.ca
Stay safe and healthy, and I look forward to connecting with you and your family soon!
