Sneak Peek! I Survived: The American Revolution 1776

Do you love the I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis? With more than 12 titles in this popular series, chances are you've read at least one of them. The newest release is I Survived: The American Revolution 1776.

Scholastic has posted the first chapter on their website On Our Minds. CLICK HERE to read the first chapter.

You can also access the I Survived website when you CLICK HERE.

Be looking for the latest I Survived title in this series in our libraries to find out about the Revolutionary War and the author's take on it.

Celebrating Dot Day

Again this year our students celebrated International Dot Day. Here's what our students enjoyed:

Kindergarten
•  We read The Dot and used the Quiver app to create our own augmented reality dots.

1st Grade
•  We watched The Dot on BookFLIX, then read Press Here before designing our dots.

2nd Grade

•  We watched The Dot on BookFLIX, then read Let's Play before creating our own dot books.

3rd Grade

•  We watched The Dot on BookFLIX, then read A Million Dots (yes, we looked at all one million dots!) before working on a dot to become a buddy dot.

4th Grade

•  We watched The Dot on BookFLIX, then read Ish, which inspired "ish-ly" drawings.

5th Grade

•  We watched The Dot on BookFLIX, then used PicCollage on iPads to design dot collages.

Using Flipgrid to Recommend Books

We're excited to share how we're using Flipgrid in our elementary libraries. Over time we've used it to share our newly created tall tale characters, to promote student-written and illustrated ABC books, and to plead the cases of books with zero checkouts. (You can read about these activities HERE.) Now, we've used it with our Grades 3 - 5 students to recommend our favorite books.

Taking advantage of access to both iPads and Chromebooks, students were able to share some of their favorite books with others. South Prairie Elementary students shared books in a Read This Book grid:

YOU CAN ACCESS THE GRID HERE.

Heritage Elementary and Dallas Center Elementary students added more than 200 recommendations and has had more than 1350 views after their initial postings!

YOU CAN ACCESS THE GRID HERE.

Flipgrid has been a tremendous tool to help us build our community of readers, and our students would love to have you take a look at their work. Enjoy!