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Kids loved learning the game Othello. It's a simple game of strategy using black and white pieces where you have to flank your opponents pieces on two sides in order to turn their pieces your color. When the board is full or no more pieces can be played, the color with the most pieces on the board wins. You have to see your opponents next move in order to stay a step ahead and win.

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Several students who wrote Laws of Life essays this year came together and we created a Reader's Theater presentation featuring parts of their essays on the Morning News.

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Several students who wrote Laws of Life essays this year came together and we created a Reader's Theater presentation featuring parts of their essays on the Morning News.

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Using National Geographic web site, an atlas or books on the seven continents students chose a place they would love to visit.  Once they located and labeled the globe with their choices they created a "Where is Waldo" type page describing their destinations using pictures and information.  After they shared project and their reasons for selecting this adventure we located some of the places on Google maps while pointing it out on the labeled globe.

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It’s been interesting to see the variety of people that are drawn to the sewing machine - we do nothing complicated (I wouldn’t know how to do 😱). But just being exposed to how a sewing machine works is an accomplishment of its own.

SIDENOTE: If I have one more adult ask me why there’s a sewing machine in the Media Center...

BUT: I have one teacher that going to Media Center is one of her rewards - HOW COOL IS THAT - and some students PICK THAT REWARD! Good things are happening 💙

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“Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move.” (Chinese Proverb) - so pleased seeing students come in to Media before school & during their lunch to cultivate/enhance their strategies - these two examples are Checkers & Chess.

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The students worked together creating with the plus plus puzzle pieces.  They had fun trying to put together the images in the book!

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The students worked together creating with the plus plus puzzle pieces.  They had fun trying to put together the images in the book!

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4th and 5th grade students were having fun with this game! The game encourages children to learn about the 50 states through fun drawing game!

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The 2nd grade students at my school were learning about Native Americans and different geographical regions in their classrooms. For my lessons with the students, we did further research and then displayed the final projects throughout the media center so other classrooms could do a gallery walk. It was a great learning experience for all!

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We have a variety of Social Studies and geography puzzles. We have large easy 48 piece floor puzzles including one of the US and the presidents that students can complete in one visit. We also have 100/ 200 piece puzzles of different habitats and environments that stay out on a table for students to work on a little at a time. Since we are the primary site, our students generally have had little experience with puzzles so it gives us the opportunity to talk puzzle strategy. The kids love it when they actually finish a puzzle and the teachers like to work on them too.

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I purchased a "Stick Together" poster pack.  Their ad line is "creating colorful collaboration , one sticker at a time."  I put it up on the front of the circulation desk along with the color key and the box of sticker sheets.  As students came in, they could add to the picture.  No one knew what it was going to be ahead of time,  It was a great collaborative project, which took a lot less time than I had planned.  It was clear that they really needed to know what it.  At first I was concerned that the kids were not being careful to get the stickers exactly in the boxes.  In the end, it didn't matter a bit.  Some things you just have to let go of.  :-)

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Part of the makerspace activities available to students this month are a few puzzles of US geography. Students shockingly struggle with placement of the States.

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Students come in during lunch to work on geography puzzles. There 6 different puzzles that are rotated in this station.

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Students come to the media and peruse the travel brochure and create an itinerary for summer travel or book destinations!

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We are still working on the 1000+ piece 3D puzzle of the Taj Mahal

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We are still working on the 1000+ piece 3D puzzle of the Taj Mahal

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Using a puzzle map of the United States, students will then complete a travel log. They'll choose a destination and then build a log of the cities they would visit along the way.

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Lely students will be walking in the footsteps of presidents this month.  Our makerspace is about finding facts around the media center and sharing those facts through words and pictures.  We will be using our complete set of United States President biographies.  

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Lely students will be walking in the footsteps of presidents this month.  Our makerspace is about finding facts around the media center and sharing those facts through words and pictures.  We will be using our complete set of United States President biographies.  

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Fourth graders study Florida history, so I will use the Florida Memory site, and a photograph of 3 generations of a Seminole family. Students will answer questions about the family, including observations about their dress, footwear, setting, etc. I will ask if they notice any similarities to the Seminoles of today. PS - There is a hidden person in the back of the photo. I will be interested to read their ideas about who he is and why he's in the photo.

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Fourth graders study Florida history, so I will use the Florida Memory site, and a photograph of 3 generations of a Seminole family. Students will answer questions about the family, including observations about their dress, footwear, setting, etc. I will ask if they notice any similarities to the Seminoles of today. PS - There is a hidden person in the back of the photo. I will be interested to read their ideas about who he is and why he's in the photo.

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I'm going to set up a dedicated student computer with a link to a video in 1964 of the dunking of the Swamp Buggy queen. The video is from the Florida Memory website. Since our school is in Golden Gate Estates, most of our students will be familiar with the Swamp Buggy races. There will be colored pencils, crayons, markers, and drawing paper set up at the Makerspace for students to draw or write about their vision of the perfect swamp buggy.  They will also be asked to compare the 1964 clothes and culture compared to today.