Today is #GSPD2017 which is Play Their Way - Global School Play Day - Feb. 1, 2017. A day to bring awareness to the importance of unstructured play without adult direction. Students in the library participated in this day by having makerspace time in the library.
Some makerspace areas in libraries have specific challenges for students to complete. We have done some of those around certain holidays, but for the most part I prefer to let the students create or play whatever they want.
School can be a stressful place these days-for kids and teachers! The students get excited about just being able to create and have fun without being told exactly what to do.
Our library has a new addition-a student teacher! Ms. Hensleigh will be joining us in the mornings on Mondays-Wednesdays until late April. We are lucky to have her around to practice for her future as a librarian because she has already been so helpful. Stay tuned to see some of her amazing lessons and displays around the library.
I modeled story time with 3rd grade today for our student teacher by reading Groundhog Weather School by Joan Holub. It is a really funny book and the kids loved it. This semester has been busy so far so it was nice to get to read to the older kids again.
We finished up by comparing fictional groundhogs with facts about woodchucks on PebbleGo. It said that they like to eat pawpaw fruit. I did not know what that was so I brought up an image of it and we all learned together about a new type of fruit.
I really enjoyed getting to share PebbleGo and the other digital resources with parents at the GISD TechFest last Thursday. I think next year's event will be even bigger and better!
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