Students are exploring through purposeful play. April/ May rotation of stations are:

Construction Site: Students explore building materials, and tools.

• Students will demonstrate problem solving skills and cooperative learning.

• Students will demonstrate their understanding of fiction vs. non-fiction books by determining which works best for research.

Surf Shop and Beach: Students explore shells, coding and sea animal research.

• Students will begin to compare and contrast characteristics of shells and ocean animals.

• Students will demonstrate their understanding of coding through following directions to build a sandcastle.

Ice Cream Shop: Students will practice step by step directions and how to read an order.

• Students will practice speaking and listening multi step directions.

•  Students will acquire new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, relate new words to prior knowledge, and apply vocabulary in new situations. 

Pre-K will listen to a story and check out books. They will practice listening and speaking.

Kindergarteners will explore non-fiction vs. fiction books to research construction sites and buildings. They will use graphs and charts to identify differences and similarities.

Students will practice selecting books based on need. They will read fiction and non-fiction books to compare characteristics of non-fiction text features. Students will also practice identifying characteristics of poetry. Students will acquire new academic vocabulary regarding genre.

Students will explore reference materials such as dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, atlas, manual, encyclopedia and online resources.

Students will determine the reference source for a given need. (encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, almanac)

We will present conduct a dictionary scavenger hunt to explore the uses of a dictionary. Students will use a thesaurus to replace words to improve given writing.

Students in 3-5th grade have the opportunity to participate in this club on the first week of each month during lunch. Students bring their lunch to the library where we chat about the current Sequoyah Book nominations. Students practice challenging each other with questions about the book they read from the list. In the spring teams will be formed to battle each other with which team know the books the most. All are welcome to join the club as long as they read at least 4 of the 15 book from the 2024-25 Sequoyah Children’s Book List.