American Girls - The Groovy 1970s

Today, our American Girls Club met and learned about the 1970s. Ms. Sloggett showed a slide show of things that were popular during the 1970s. The girls learned about hairstyles, clothing styles, technology of the time, and listened to a few songs from the 1970s. They made friendship bracelets and got to see some funny pictures of Ms. Sloggett and her family from that time. Here's one of the pictures they saw - it is from 1972. That is Ms. Sloggett on the top right!

More New Books!

Central Oak boys and girls are going to go BONKERS when they see the new books that Mr. Roger Short, CO alumni purchased for our library! Tom Angleberger has written some very creative books for upper elementary and middle school students about a bunch of kids who know a lot about Star Wars. One of the boys creates origami characters from Star Wars and they play an integral role in the plot of the series.

Felicity is an American Girl who lives in Jamestown during the late 1700s. Since the 5th graders are studying that time period, I thought it would be nice if the girls could read about a girl their age that lived during the time.

Thank you so much Mr. Short!

Outstanding Alumni Support

Our library received a wonderful donation from a couple of alumni this afternoon - the entire series of two of our most popular books and two American Girl - Felicity books! Thank you so much!!!

All Star Book Fair!!!

We are having our book fair this week at Central Oak. Our goal is sales of $2600. I'm sure the kids will work really hard at achieving it because if it is made, Ms. Sloggett will dress up as...

 

That's right! I will - BUT only if the goal is made. I hope we make it, but not really... :)

 

Since today was Talk Like a Pirate Day, I dressed up as a pirate and read Pirates Don't Change Diapers to our three Pre-K classes. They were so excited to get to rrrrrrread alllllonnngg!!

I met up wth some shoppers at our book fair and took a picture with them. What a fun day!

 

 

Red White and Read

Red White and Read is our reading theme this year at Central Oak Elementary School.  We are promoting books about patriotism, American History, Oklahoma History, and any other books related to American studies. We came up with this theme because our year started out with the Olympics, which always brings about feelings of pride in our country(ies). Our Fall Book Fair theme is All Stars. We are all proud of being All-Star Americans!

Eric Carle Author Study

Our Second Graders recently read an Eric Carle story (The Tiny Seed) during their reading time in class. When they came to the library, I read them Walter the Baker - my favorite Eric Carle book. We talked about how Eric Carle does his illustrations with collage. The teachers went above and beyond and helped their students create beautiful bulletin boards using the collage techniques. Here are some pictures of the hallway decorations and some of the creators!

New Story Rug!

We are so excited to have a new rug in our library for kids to sit upon when they listen to stories in the library. It has rows of stars on which little kids sit and so far, it is a hit! Check out this class enjoying the new rug...