CE Google Hangout with the AMAZING Josh Funk!

Click the photo below to see the highlight of our day - A Google Hangout with the AMAZING author - Josh Funk!

We Are Makers: CISD Summer Library Activities

Eggcellent Learning with Farmers Pa & Mcmillin

Photo source: http://www.adventuresci.org/events/event/eggcellent-science-2/

My two FAVORITE farmers visited CE last Friday! Farmer Pa and Farmer Mcmillin taught our students all about the life cycle of a chicken. Not only that, they have supplied our 1st grade classrooms with eggs that hatched today!

Farmer Pa & Farmer Mcmillin are here-CE 1st Ss learning about chickens @randicheyenne7 #castleberryisd #ceohgo pic.twitter.com/ZBiOKh81wq

— Sallee Clark (@libraryclark) May 13, 2016

1st grade has baby chicks! #ceohgo pic.twitter.com/W9BtSQytPu

— Cheyenne McMillin (@randicheyenne7) May 16, 2016

Students also learned about how a baby chick hatches and the anatomy of a chicken.  Did you know chickens have an egg tooth? Following the lessons with our farmers, students returned to the library to learn about sound waves and sounding boards.  Students created their very own chickens in a cup. We had so much fun with these farmers! Thank you Ms. Mcmillin for including the library in your science lessons!

CE May Library Newsletter

EPIC Author Hangout: Rubin Pingk

 
WOW! I think we just experienced the BEST author Google Hangout EVER!  Mr. Rubin Pingk, author/Illustrator or Samurai Santa, agreed to Google Hangout with us this past Friday.  With over 800 students in attendance online, Mr. Pingk encouraged our students to join him in his recipe for doing anything:

He encouraged our kiddos to follow this recipe in everything they do in life.  Start - start doing, Do it More, Don't give up, keep going, then go back and re-do the bad stuff.  Mr. Pingk also warned us about the enemies lurking to destroy our recipe.  

The enemies to success include: Procrastination, Frustration, becoming Satisfied, and Ego/Pride!  WOW! What great lessons to learn at a young age! Not only that, this goes perfect with our school theme of having a growth mindset.

Want to be encouraged by this brilliant recipe? Check out the Google Hangout below!  He also shares how he made a book, his favorite book, how to draw Yukio, and more!

We also had the chance to ask a few questions.  To manage this across 800 students we used the twitter hashtag #Pingkrocks

#pingkrocks Tweets

We also sent a few questions ahead of time to Mr. Pingk and he created some amazing artwork to answer them :)

Thank you Mr. Pingk for an 

EPIC Google Hangout! 

CE Library News - April

We LOVE Science!

I was so excited when I heard that Mr. Allan Small was visiting CE last week!  Mr. Small is an amazing science teacher.  He offers students the ability to have fun learning through hands on experiments.  I of course begged 3rd grade to please come to the library when hosting this science experiment!

Mr. Small presented the students with crayfish!  Many of the students have never seen or touched a crayfish.  The sounds in the room went from eww to aww to wow to oh cool!  First they began by examining the body and locating three main body parts taught by Mr. Small.  Once the parts were located, the students then learned about the different ways crayfish adapt to their surrounds.

After learning about how they adapt, the students were able to compare the crayfish to a giant water beetle.  They compared and contrasted the bodies and discussed the different adaptations of the giant water beetle.

Then it was time for the grand finale! DISSECTION!
The kids loved it!  They were able to view the inside of the crayfish and see the different sections of its exoskeleton!

Check out the videos below:

Wow! @TheFort_FW you are the BEST Scientist EVER!! Thank you for sharing this with our Ss #castleberryisd #ceohgo pic.twitter.com/lIk4yUxMyx

— Sallee Clark (@libraryclark) March 31, 2016

You Rock @FontenotMathCE Amazing science experiment! Tks for experimenting in the library! #castleberryisd #ceohgo pic.twitter.com/zSaWvgUzIn

— Sallee Clark (@libraryclark) March 31, 2016