Madison LLC News
May 2019
SUMMER READING PROGRAMS
Students have the opportunity to participate in two summer Reading Programs:
- Wheaton Public Library. Click here to sign your class up! They ask for each grade level to come for 15 minutes to the library to hear about their program.
- CUSD200. Materials will be given out during your LLC time. Extra forms may be found on Madison's LLC website and can be printed out.
Global Day of Design May 6, 2019 (But you can do it another day)
The 2019 Global Day of Design will be held on May 6th!
What is the Global Day of Design all about?
Students need to make, build, and tinker. The Global Day of Design is one-day that focuses on using the Design Thinking process in school. Our goal for the Global Day of Design is to inspire a transformation in schools around the world to incorporate design thinking into everyday practice with our students from all levels, ages, and subjects.
Go to the GlobalDayOfDesign.com and get access to 20+ FREE design challenges that you can use or tweak/modify. Enter your details into the form at the bottom of this post and receive a Design Challenge for FREE.
ALL LIBRARY BOOKS ARE DUE MAY 20th
Classes will not check out books the week of May 20th, unless items are needed for a class project. Bluestem may be checked out until the last week of school. A list of materials you have out will be delivered to your mailbox. Please review the list and let me know if you don’t think it is accurate or if you have lost any items. Please return all library materials as soon as you are finished with them. Thank you.
Blended Play Classroom Game
MATERIALS FOR NEXT YEAR
If you would like to see the Library Learning Center purchase specific books or professional material for next year, please e-mail Diane with titles or subject suggestions. Your ideas are always welcome. Also, if you need specific items for the GetFit lab, please let Diane know.
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New Picture Books Just IN
- Fox + Chick The Party and Other Stories by Sergio Ruzzier
- Little Brown by Marla Frazee. Great book about including others. "An open-ended story that creates a great starting point for meaningful discussion with young children about bullying and inclusion." --School Library Journal(starred review)
- The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke - "PreS-Gr 2-In this Australian import, three siblings who live in a remote village "at the edge of the no-go desert" in a "mud-for-walls home," make do with what they have to entertain themselves. They like to run, jump and climb, but their pride and joy is their bike, which they cobbled together out of spare parts and junk. The handlebars are made of branches, and the wood-cut wheels go "winketty wonk" as they ride, a nice onomatopoetic touch."
- There Are No Bears in This Bakery by Julia Sarcone-Roach. "VERDICT This is not only a winning read-aloud but also an excellent choice to introduce a mystery unit or a mini-lesson on onomatopoeia or simile."
- Dear Substitute by Scanlon - "In a series of letters a student laments the absence of her teacher and daily routine, but she soon realizes there are benefits to mixing things up, and that perhaps having a substitute teacher is not so bad after all."
- Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
- Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Balck Heroes From Past and Present by Jamia Wilson
- Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Save Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker
- Dreamers by Yuyi Morales - "This excellent memoir encapsulates the fears, hopes, and dreams that come along with immigrating to a new place and building a new life in an unfamiliar and often hostile landscape."
- We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell - The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, follow a full Cherokee year of celebrations and experiences. Written by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, this look at one group of Native Americans is appended with a glossary and the complete Cherokee syllabary, originally created by Sequoyah"--Amazon.