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

Construction: Students explore community helpers.

• Students will demonstrate problem solving skills and cooperative learning.

• Students will demonstrate their understanding of building and construction.

Pizzeria: Students will discriminate between fiction and nonfiction genres..

• Students will begin to write lists and classify ingredients .

• Students will demonstrate their understanding of non-fiction text features.

Garden Center: Students will use details from the literary or informational text to draw conclusions and make predictions..

• 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.

Students will demonstrate their understanding that print carries a message by recognizing labels, signs and other print in the environment.

Students will demonstrate correct book orientation and identify the title, title page and the front and back covers of a book.

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 practice identifying characteristics of poetry. Students will acquire new academic vocabulary regarding genre..

Students will explore the importance of citing sources.

Students will explore Sora and Destiny to locate and review sources.

Students will begin researching the branches of government using the Big 6 research process.

Students will review Sora and Destiny to locate and review sources.

Students will begin the Big 6 research process to research the regions of the United States (4th grade) and the thirteen colonies (5th grade).

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 for the next school year as long as they read at least 4 of the 15 books from the 2025-26 Sequoyah Book List. Students have a choice in which 4 books from the list they read.