Reading is SWEET...

Watch how these bees work together to create their hive. 

We can work together in the library to make it a "sweet" place to learn and explore. 

I hope you will do your part to make the library SWEET!

Brandon Mull

We had the opportunity to have Brandon Mull come to our school to do an author visit on Friday, March 14th. The students loved his assembly! He is a very popular author at our school and we are getting a few new books that he talked about at the assembly. If you would like to check out his website with a full list of all of his books there is a link under "author sites" to the right of this post. Just click on Brandon Mull and it will take you to his website.

Helen Keller

Dictionaries

  Dictionaries list the words used in a language. 

With a Dictionary, you can learn...

-How to spell a word

-What a word means

-How to say a word

-What part of speech a word is

-How many syllables are in a word

-Whether or not to capitalize a word

-How to abbreviate a word (USA)

-Meanings of prefixes and suffixes for a word

Important things to know when using a dictionary...

• The words are organized in alphabetical order.  
• Guide words are used to help you locate a word quickly.
•  There may be more than one definition. To choose the correct definition...

1.  Decide how the word is used.

2.  Read all meanings of the word given to you.

3.  Imagine a blank space in the sentence where the word appears.

4.  Substitute the meaning you feel is correct into that sentence.

5.  If the sentence makes sense, then you have the correct definition.

Have you heard of a matryoshka doll before?  

There is a giant matryoshka doll in the Olympics on the slopestyle course at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. Matryoshka's are a special nesting doll that originated in Russia. We have books in our library about matryoshka dolls and Russia if you want to learn more.

Photos taken from sports.yahoo.com