Today we had a terrific Shakespeare assembly: members of the Theatricum Botanicum managed to present the complicated A Midsummer Night's Dream in under an hour while involving many students in the performance! It was a hit on so many levels, and I am so proud of our school and the PTA for making this unusual educational experience available to our students in grades 4 and 5. Special thanks go to Jiyeon and Julie, chairs of this year's PK literacy event.
February includes so many holidays, observances, and special events, it's hard to choose what to focus on during class visits! This week our attention turns to Presidents Day, always observed on the third Monday in February. It is for this holiday that we have no school on Thursday, Friday, and the coming Monday. Many classes have rescheduled, so please bear with me if your son or daughter has library on an unexpected day. Readalouds this week have to do primarily with Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is February 12, but there are a few other presidents represented too. After the break we will spend a week or two on Black History Month. On display this week are books about the presidency but also related to Valentine's Day and to "inclusiveness," which is this month's character trait.
Today we had a terrific Shakespeare assembly: members of the Theatricum Botanicum managed to present the complicated A Midsummer Night's Dream in under an hour while involving many students in the performance! It was a hit on so many levels, and I am so proud of our school and the PTA for making this unusual educational experience available to our students in grades 4 and 5. Special thanks go to Jiyeon and Julie, chairs of this year's PK literacy event.
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Barbara Siegemund-Broka, library resource specialist, maintains this blog to inform Pennekamp students and families about library news and related content. Any opinions expressed here are solely her own.
What's Ms. Barbara reading?How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell
Worth repeating:
His eyes are soft. “Do you know why I became a librarian?” I wait for him to tell me, because of course I don’t. “Dewey,” he says. “As in the decimal system.” I’m not sure if he’s joking or not, but he continues, “I like order. I like organization. The idea of all the information in the world, all organized, everything in its place—I like that idea.” He clears his throat. “But I’ve been doing this job for a long time. And the thing I’ve learned is that stories aren’t about order and organization. They’re about feelings. And the feelings don’t always make sense. See, stories are like …” He pauses, brow furrowing, then nods, satisfied in finding the right comparison: “Water. Like rain. We can hold them tight, but they always slip through our fingers.” I try to hide my shock. Joe doesn’t seem like the poetic type. His caterpillar eyebrows knit together. “That can be scary. But remember that water gives us life. It connects continents. It connects people. And in quiet moments, when the water’s still, sometimes we can see our own reflection.” --From When You Trap a Tiger, by Tae Heller, winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal Archives
August 2021
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