3rd Grade Early America Project

Over the last few weeks the third grade students have been studying Early America. To demonstrate their learning they created a variety of projects and showed them off in a museum format for their parents and the other students to see. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces as they eagerly showed off their hard work! Here is just a small sampling of their fantastic projects. Nice job third graders!!!

ATTENTION PARENTS: Summer Bucket List Free Printable!!!

I cannot lie. I am a HUGE Pinterest fan. I can spend endless hours on this site and just pin, pin, pin away! Last night I was perusing the site and stumbled across the CUTEST printable!! I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm always looking for ideas of things to do with my daughters during the summer. So when I found this, it felt like I hit the jackpot!! Because I love it so much, I'm going to share it with you!

Before we get that far though...I recently had a conversation with the upper grade levels about "borrowing" images from the Internet. I do not own this document, nor do I own the rights to the images so before I posted this information I contacted Gretchen, the blog owner at Three Little Monkeys Studio. I sent her a brief email requesting permission to share her awesome list and permission to use a photo to grab your attention. Obviously I got both! I am soooo thrilled!! (See kids? Sometimes all it takes is a quick email to get permission to borrow an image!)

A great big THANKS goes out to Gretchen and I hope that you will all run (don't walk!!) to her site and check out these awesome Summer Bucket Lists!! {Click on the photo below to head over to her page!}

We're on Instagram!

I love using Instagram for my personal photos but recently (yesterday) created an account for my school photos. Please take a minute to check us out! Follow me so that you don't miss out on all the fun! Click on the icon below to find my page!

Summer Reading Program

Today the Glenbrook students had a special guest come and visit us. Katie Guzek, a youth services librarian from the Brown County Library came out and talked to all grade levels about the upcoming Summer Reading Programs. For kids ages birth to entering 5th grade this summer's theme is "Fizz! Boom! Read!". The theme for Middle School and High School students is "Spark a Reaction" and for adults (yes, they even have a program for adults!) your theme is "Literary Elements". The kick-off event is happening on Saturday, June 7th at the Central Library from 10 am to noon. Stop in and check it out! Sign up for the program begins on June 7th and can be done at any of the Brown County Library locations.

I hope you continue to read all summer long!

I Love Writing By Mrs. Skinkis's Class

The other day I had the opportunity to work with a first grade class on their "I Love Writing" project. They first wrote a sentence about why they loved writing. Next, they colored a picture illustrating their sentence. I took the completed images, scanned them into the computer and uploaded them to Little Bird Tales. From there, the students were recorded reading their sentence and a book was created! Enjoy!

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Attention Grabber!!

We just got a new sign for the library and it definitely has the attention of the kids! I'm hearing lots of buzz coming from the hallway and they all want to know...what's new?!

Summer Reading

Summer is just around the corner and with summer comes long days of hanging out with friends and running around the neighborhood. Unfortunately, some students suffer from "summer learning loss" since they don't have the daily reminder of school anymore. Big Universe came up with an infographic to help students with ideas for learning during the summer. Enjoy!

What's New in the Glenbrook LMC?

Check out this video to find out what's new in the library!