Fair Haven Pre K-8 LMC
  • Home
  • Databases & Websites
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Digital Breakout
  • FH Catalog - OPAC
  • Reading & Math Inventory
  • Chromebooks
  • For Students
    • Book Club
    • Acceptable Use Policy for Student Use of Technology
    • Citing Your Sources
    • FH Catalog - OPAC
    • Copyright For Kids
    • La clase de Mrs. Bonz
    • Nancy Keane's Book Talk Home Page
    • Creative Commons
  • For Teachers
    • Primary Sources
    • Resources from NHFPL
    • Common Core Mathematics Resources
  • Research Projects
    • Hana's Suitcase Research Project
    • Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
    • Yellow Fever Expert Groups Directions >
      • Yellow Fever Expert Group Videos
    • Mrs. Lawrence's Gr. 4 Natural Disaster Website
    • The Winter Olympics >
      • The Winter Games
    • Return to Sender >
      • Dia de los Muertos
      • "La Golondrina"
      • Underground Railroad
      • Virgen de Guadalupe
      • Coyotes
      • The Pleiades
      • Daily Life of Migrant Farm Worker
      • Migrant Smuggling
    • 1st Grade
    • 3rd Grade Pilgrim Project
    • 3rd grade Bilingual Solar System >
      • Sitios Web en Español
      • Websites in English
    • 4th Grade Blues Project >
      • Significant Life Events
      • Shemekia Copeland
      • B.B. King
      • Bonnie Raitt
      • Bessie Smith
      • Ray Charles
      • Robert Johnson
      • Aretha Franklin
      • Mahalia Jackson
      • Muddy Waters
      • Billie Holiday
      • Eric Clapton
  • Science Fair
  • Blog
  • Fair Haven Pre K 8 School Homepage
  • New Haven Public Schools Homepage

World Read Aloud Day 2017

2/15/2017

0 Comments

 
 Fair Haven Pre K 8 School celebrated its 2nd annual World Read Aloud Day in the Library Media Center today to highlight the power of words and to remind our students that the right to literacy belongs to all people. Students in grades kindergarten through third grade visited the LMC and rotated through 5 stations.  Students listened to and discussed New Day, New Friends about a rabbit, a monkey, friendship, fun and a kite! Students then moved on to another station where they created a colorful kite to take home. STEM skills were integrated into fairytales when students heard The 3 Little Pigs or Goldilocks and the 3 Bears and had to physically construct a house to withstand the wolf's huffing and puffing or build chairs that belonged to the bears that Goldilocks sampled. Students had the opportunity to listen to a an interactive digital story on an iPad and they ended their time with illustrating something that they hope for. In the upper grades, guest readers visited classroom teachers received a book to share with their students.
Picture

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
0 Comments

Rainforest  - First Grade Bloggers

5/10/2015

43 Comments

 
Students in first grade have been learning about rainforest animals. They used books and online sources such as Pebblego.com and Brainpop.com.

Boys and girls - please share with our readers what you learned about these rainforest animals in the 
comments section below.
Picture
Poison Dart Frog
Picture
Sloth
Picture
Jaguar
Picture
Red Eyed Tree Frog
Picture
Amazon River Dolphin
Picture
Leaf Cutter Ant
Picture
Blue Morpho Butterfly
43 Comments

Mrs. Bonz's Class Learns to Blog

3/26/2014

66 Comments

 
Picture
Mrs. Bonz is very excited about her students learning how to blog!
Picture
Students "All About" books
Students in Mrs. Bonz's Bilingual class class worked on "All About" books on various topics that they studied. To practice  their keyboarding, blogging and English writing skills, they came to the LMC and blogged!
66 Comments

November 01st, 2013

11/1/2013

2 Comments

 

2nd Graders Turn Research into Word Clouds

Our three second grade classes came to the library this week to research a variety of topics. Students studied the life cycle of the butterfly in their classrooms and extended their curiosity by researching the life cycle of chickens, turtles, frogs and more. Students strengthened their technology and research skills by using computers and accessing Pebblego.com. They also used books from our library media center as well as books from the New Haven Free Public Library. Students took notes and then made a word list of meaningful words that related to the subject they chose to study.  Students then created word clouds using Tagxedo on the computers.

 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
2 Comments

Kindergarten Students Incorporate Technology Into Their Study of Apples

9/25/2013

2 Comments

 
Picture
This year, in an attempt to get our youngest students on board with technology in a meaningful way, all Kindergarten classes came to the library and did research using Pebblego.com on a subject they were studying in their classrooms - apples/seeds.

Students were given a demonstration on how to properly use the mouse and navigate the Pebblego.com database as well as given basic technology vocabulary to build on (monitor, keyboard, mouse, tower, click, database, tabs, etc...). A graphic organizer was provided for students to draw a picture of what they learned 
and/or to write down (with assistance) some facts from the text they read and listened to (audio support is available on Pebblego). Back in their classrooms, students used their graphic organizers to create "fact cards" of what they learned for their performance task. For our bilingual class, students listened to the information in English and then brainstormed in Spanish as a whole group as well as using the graphic organizers.

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
2 Comments

BRINGING "THE BLUES" TO FAIR HAVEN K8 4TH GRADERS

9/17/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
Literacy Coach Lauren Canalori teaches students the basics of writing a blues song.
This year's 4th Grade Blues Musician Inquiry Project kicked off today!!  4th grade classes came to the LMC and rotated through 4 stations gaining background knowledge about Blues music and musicians. The stations included: a video of various Blues musicians, a listening station of Blues music with written lyrics for them to follow, a write your own Blues song station and a computer station where they watched a PowerPoint presentation of commonly used Blues instruments and used and an interactive website to create Blues songs.

After completing their research on a selected musician, students will have the choice of creating a poster of significant life events or of painting a portrait of their musician and audio recording a first person narrative of their musician that will be converted into a QR code 
Picture
Students watching various Blues musicians perform.
Picture
Students watching PowerPoint of commonly used Blues instruments.
0 Comments

Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems

5/9/2013

8 Comments

 
Picture






Ms. Russo's class heard Knuffle Bunny A Cautionary Tale by Willems. We discussed characters, settings and major events in the story. 

Describe one of the characters in the book, Knuffle Bunny A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
8 Comments

Animal Research Brochures

5/8/2013

14 Comments

 
Picture



Kermith proudly displays the brochure he created using MS Publisher after completing his research on bats.  All students used at least 1 book and 1 electronic source (Encyclopedia Britannica Online) for their research. They incorporated non-fiction text features into their brochures and paraphrased the information they found while researching. They used Citation Maker to enter their source citation for proper formatting.

Picture
Ms. Anaya helping a student with the final touches on their brochure.
Picture
Cesar pauses for a moment while working on his shark brochure.
14 Comments

Happy Teeth

5/7/2013

23 Comments

 
Collaboration in action.  Nurse practitioner, Tammy Edelkind and myself worked together to teach the first graders about proper care of their teeth. It was a great day!  The kids watched a Brainpop movie and then rotated through stations where they practiced proper brushing and flossing techniques, sorting healthy and unhealthy foods and exploring the difference (with a hammer!) between enamel and soft teeth. They all received a healthy snack of fruit.  Bags of toothpaste, dental floss and a toothbrush was distributed to each student to take home. 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
23 Comments

Harry Potter Book CLub

5/7/2013

9 Comments

 
Picture
Mrs. Canalori mixing potions with the students from the student created Harry Potter Book Club.
Picture
Hands on activities stemming from great novels inspires students to be engaged in their learning.
9 Comments

Family Resource Center

4/23/2013

13 Comments

 
Easter Seals Goodwill Industries Parent Leadership Training
As part of the Parent Leadership workshops, parents created beautiful masks with teaching artist, Judith A. Mortensen, from Arts for Learning Connecticut and Raquel Berrios and Melisa Alvarado from Easter Seals and Luz Betancur, Family Program Coordinator at Fair Haven Pre K - 8 School.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
13 Comments

    Lynn Virtue, LMS

    I'm the Library Media Specialist at Fair Haven Pre K - 8 School.  I am extremely fortunate to have a career I love and to work in such an amazing school!

    Archives

    February 2017
    May 2015
    March 2014
    November 2013
    September 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013

    Categories

    All
    Dental Care
    Family Resource Center
    Harry Potter
    Kindergarten
    Ms Publisher Projects
    Parents
    Research

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.