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2024-2025
Your table is ready! Third grade students were welcomed to the Library for a book tasting where they got to try books in different genres including realistic fiction, biography, nonfiction, fantasy, and mystery. Using their menus, students got to be critics as they reviewed each of the genres they tasted. The Cardinal Cafe has been really busy...good thing third grade made reservations!
Research!
Research!
Third grade students used our database, PebbleGo, to learn about endangered animals. Using their research skills, they made endangered animal trading cards. They also learned about citations and the importance of citing information.
National Parks
National Parks
Students in third grade learned about National Parks by reading The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks. They then watched Old Faithful erupt. After looking at vintage posters of National Parks, they then designed their own National Park poster, considering what features they would want their dream park to have.
Finding Nonfiction Books
Finding Nonfiction Books
Masters of using call numbers to locate Fiction books in the library, third grade students learned more about how to find nonfiction books in the library using the Dewey Decimal system. After learning about the ten different subject categories in the library organization system, students practiced their skills by playing an online shelving game. Are the books in order?!
What's Your Reading Profile?
What's Your Reading Profile?
After reading The Book of Gold, third grade students spent some time discerning what type of reader they are--they though about what genres they like to read, where they like to read, and how they like to read.
Aspiring Leaders
Aspiring Leaders
After reading Leah Gilbert's The Perfect Plan, third grade students discussed what makes a good leader. They then made cards about leadership, and these were shared with the Network Aspiring Leaders to welcome them to Sacred Heart.
Library Organization
Library Organization
Through a challenging Kahoot, third grade students practiced their skills finding books in the library! They demonstrated that they can find specific books by using the electronic catalog to get the call number to locate the book on the shelf. This year, third grade students get to check out 4 books at a time. Happy Reading!
What Do You Recommend?
What Do You Recommend?
Third grade students contributed to our bulletin board with book recommendations of favorite books that they have read! Students have been using our Book Recommendation board to find their next read...
2023-2024
Maps!
Maps!
Second grade students learned about maps and used a map from 1887 to find where the well used to be...in what is now the library!
PebbleGo Research!
PebbleGo Research!
Third grade learned about the Library's database, PebbleGo which they can use for research and to learn information. Each student chose two endangered animals to research.
Call Numbers
Call Numbers
Third grade students remembered that fiction books in our library are organized alphabetically based on the first three letters of the author's last name. Each student held a letter and had to get in alphabetical order.
2022-2023
October is Louisiana Archaeology month! To celebrate, students in 3rd grade learned about archaeologists, studied some urban garbage to learn about a family, and then discovered artifacts in blocks of ice.
After checking out books, 3rd grade students put on a puppet show in the Library's Poet Tree.
To celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month, third grade students learned about Pura Belpre, the first Latina librarian for the New York Public Library. She is also a celebrated author and was famous for using puppets in her story times. Students got to make their own puppets!
In celebration of International Dot Day (inspired by Peter Reynolds' The Dot), third grade had a special visit and joint read aloud with a 4th grade class at the Orchard School in South Burlington, Vermont. After exchanging questions and answers about our schools and states ("What?! They don't have Mardi Gras in Vermont?!"), students from both schools took turns reading Sky Color by Peter Reynolds.
2021-2022
Third grade learned about National Parks. They "visited" a National Park of their choice, and they made animal footprints using clay!
Third Grade participated in the Global Mural Project. In Library before Thanksgiving, students learned about gratitude. They then wrote or drew on a leaf about something for which they were grateful and placed the leaf on the tree. Our Gratitude Tree mural was then cut into ten foot long pieces. We sent nine of those pieces to other schools around the United States and Canada, and, in return, we have received a piece of each of their murals. Stay tuned for the completed Global Mural!
It's Election Day! Third grade students participated in Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Awards and voted using real voting machines from the Secretary of State.
Meet the Illustrator!: Third Grade students were prepared with questions for illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser's virtual visit.
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