Welcome to the Lenape

Library Media Center

Ms. MaryAnn Lis-Simmons, Library Media Teacher, 845-256-4330

Mrs. Janice Pallus, Library Clerk, 845-256-4331

 

 

Winter Break reading recommendations by the fifth grade students of Book Talker and fifth grade teacher, Colby Sharp

 

 

S'now Much Fun!

 

   

     

 

 

 

Fry Bread A Native American Family Story

by Kevin Noble Maillard       illlustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal

We shared the story of Fry Bread and celebrated food in our lives

Giving Thanks: What's a favorite food? Do you help prepare it? Can you make it by yourself?

   

         

   

    

 

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

BioCollage featuring people who have made a difference

as presented by Ms. Crowder & Ms. Russolello students

with Ms. Profaci and Ms. Lis-Simmons

 

 

 

 

 

Summer Reading  - What are your plans?

       

       

 

June 2022 

Students explored biodiversity of Hudson Valley and made patterns with critters they created in paintz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eliza      Elliot

 

 

Ben Levi

 

GabyMica    

 

Haiku? You?

Is it Cin-quain in, that You are a Poet?

 

It takes you away

Into a magical place

Your bookstore awaits

                                           Sylvia 

   Drifting in darkness

Big spheres floating everywhere

I am lost in space...

                         Leilani 

 

     

                                               

                                                       

       

Below, Haiku responses to Crow Boy, by Taro Yashima

       

   

Cinquain (sin-kane) a five line poem

           

         

     

       

                 

         

 

 

IF she can see it...THEN she can be it     

visit "#IfThenSheCan — The Exhibit."

A salute to 120 living women scientists in glorious 3-D

 

 

 

 

 

March 1 - Mardi Gras Shout out to New Orleans and author Jewell Parker Rhodes

 

  March 8 - MYSTERY suggestions

 

 

                    Check out the Calendar of A Daily Dose of Books

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

visit the National Museum of the American Indian for resources that are 

  authoritative and of quality

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem, "The Hill We Climb"

            presented by Mrs. Easterlin's fifth grade, after discussion, study, preparation

                          

with your exclamation of what we say "YES" to!

           First  Listen to Love is a Place #1 and Then Listen to a slightly differently reading. Next watch this demo on how to use the tools in Google Drawings to create a "button" you would wear proclaiming the world of YES. Your Google Drawing "canvas" to create your button is in your Library Google Classroom. What do you say YES to?

 

                                

                                                                   

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We continue to promote a Library collection that reflects the world we live in.

Following the premise of the February 28 title featured in our Book of the Day series,

we carry on into March with "Say Their Names", acknowledging the inventive and

persevering energy that motivates the independent spirit of doing good and doing right, that often goes unnoticed.

Say Their Names - Flipgrid videos - more Flipgrid videos

Email Ms. Lis-Simmons if you need an access code

 

Students the age of our Lenape students learn Community and Kindness, Respect and Responsibility, through the environments we create and the interactions we encourage. The language we use requires appropriate use in context. Our school Library has a collection, and continues to grow it, that fosters Community through the Mirrors and Windows idea that allows students to see themselves and build identity, as well as provide access to other experiences that may seem unfamiliar, and yet are relatable. Compassion and Empathy grow from the place of the Golden Rule - treat others as you want to be treated.

  Since 1976, February has been designated Black History Month at the federal level.  This grew out of what was a week-long recognition begun in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.  

  Black History is American History.  The Civil Rights decade of the 1960s connects in spirit and form to the foundation of liberty fought for and forged in 1776.  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of our “inescapable network of mutuality.” **  Walt Whitman wrote that “every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

  How do we rise to the challenge to make this relevant in the lives of students in 2022?

     ** the sharing of a feeling, action, or relationship between two or more parties.

                 

                     

                

          

 

      Highlighting Hispanic Heritage

from the Lenape Library collection

 

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      Listen to Alma                   See some pages & listen!                                                                                  

  

 

Listen to the BookTalk     

  

 

                                                                

  

 

 

                    

   

 

                        

       

Kelly Stays Home: The Science of Coronavirus by Lauren Block MD MPH and Adam E. Block PhD illustrated by Alex Brissenden 

Younger version, less text, same message Kelly Stays Home: The Science of Coronavirus     

Below we are sharing the February Black History Month calendar created by Mrs. Easterlin's 5th grade.

After researching with several electronic and print resources, students took key facts and dates and used WordArt.com to compose appropriate calendar pages.

 

Play the author name game.  See if you are pronouncing names the way they should be pronounced!

 

 

There are 100 questions on the Citizenship Test to become

a citizen of the United States.  Here are 10 of those questions. Take a look and see how many you have an idea about.

 

Take a look at some of the Civics related e-books available to you online from our Library

    

 

NEW! Social and Emotional Learning - 25 e-books, Rosen Publishing 

access provided by Ulster BOCES

 

Talking about Biographies - our collection represents people who are still living and doing remarkable things! 

Example: Neil DeGrasse Tyson 

 

Making a choice to raise one's voice takes courage.

Example:  Ogilvy  

 

 

 

April is...

• the Earth waking up to a fresh season
• Poetry, by heart and out loud
• mucking around in a garden seeing the work of earthworms up close
• more daylight

 

Last school year (2017-2018) we celebrated the Library as a MakerSpace.

We Made Sentences

We wrote and submitted comments in the OPALS catalog for other students to consider as recommendations.

We Made Connections

We made  interactive/digital "library boxes"  highlighting key words and subjects, and illustrated our writing with self-created images in the Paint program.

We Made Meaning

We made progress exploring Code while we learned to recognize patterns and accept challenges.

We Made Pathways into the World, and

Made things happen with our Hands, Head, and Heart

A  Dream Box created in response to a Biography, and a video interview with the creator!

Several videos of 5th grade students who finished Code Course C, as they "mucked around" with Lil'Bits electronics to see what they could create using Code in action.

Two students' stories published in an anthology about space travel and aliens.

Audio recordings of poetry and Haiku inspired by Japanese lanterns.

Teeny, tiny, origami.

Tangrams, tangrams, tangrams from animals to the Statue of Liberty!

We Helped Write the Book on Lenape's 2017-18 School Year!