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Book Blurbs - School School Library News Sign Language in the library Third Grade

Third Grade in action

The last day of visiting the library was spent playing Bingo using ASL sign language. We had five winners in the Third Grade pictured below. 5-28-2024.

Third Grade is busy coloring on our Spring poster and looking for a book and checking the catalog to find the perfect book. 5-14-24

Third graders show good library habits of reading. They use sign language to communicate Trinity. And to go with the book we read “We are all Wonders” they signed kindness.

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Book Blurbs - School Middle Grade Book Videos

Mice of the Round Table

A Tail of Camelot by Julie Leung

Click to hear the second chapter of this story.

https://youtu.be/-l9nUap5CqQ

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Book Blurbs - School Fourth Grade School Library News

Fourth Grade in Action in Library

Celebrating the final visit to the Library for this school year, the Fourth Grade played Bingo using the ASL number signs. These smiling students were the winners of a “Bingo”. 5-29-2024

Looking for the perfect book and adding to the Spring poster – 4th Grade in action.

Honor these students

Today we would like to honor these three students who followed the procedure of picking our book, checking it out and then sitting quietly at table with no noise to distract the other students. 5-1-24
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Book Blurbs - School K5 in Action School Library News

K5 In Action in the Library

K5 heard the story “Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too?” After they learned the sign for Kangaroo, dolphin, and deer, they were able to choose their books from the tubs and check out. May 3, 2024

K5 Finding their Name to check out books.

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Book Blurbs - School School Library News Third Grade

Third Grade in the Library

Third Grade is spelling the word Dragon to go with the Caldecott Winner The Truth about Dragons. The book looks at two different cultures concept of dragons. 4/16/2024
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School Library News Spring Poster

Poster to welcome Spring

Third Grade colors Spring Poster 4-9-24
Second grade adds to the Spring Poster 4/10/24
4th grade adds to Spring Poster 4-10-24
Fifth Grade adds to Spring Poster 4-12-24
First Grade adds to Spring Poster 4-12-24
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K4 sign the word that was used in the book shared with them during class.

For the last visit as K4’s to the library, we shared books about Jesus loving us. The students then practiced signing the word love.

K4 practicing ASL words for Penguin and Sea Lion. 5-15-24

K4 listening and practicing ASL

K4 students practicing signing the word for Turtle to use during reading of book Turtle Says Hello!
K4 signing animal names like sheep, rabbit bird, lion, bear, turtle, pig, cat. Can you tell which animal each child is signing? You may need to ask them.
K4 signing word for giraffe while coloring their giraffe a character in the book Rabbit’s Pajama Party.

K4 signed Butterfly after hearing the story about the Butterfly

K4 listen to “The Ant and the Grasshopper”

After listening to “The Ant and the Grasshopper” we practiced signing “ant” and “grasshopper” in sign language.

Now it is time to choose a book to check out and share with parents at home. This takes some real decision making skills.

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Book Blurbs - School First Grade in Action K5 in Action Sign Language in the library

K5 and First Grade learn new ASL word

K5 learned the word goat in ASL in connection with reading this fun tale about a goat.
First Grade signing mother
First Grade signing spring.
First Grade signing father.
K5 signing Friend after reading Make More Smores and the friends of bears and raccoons.
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First Grade in Action School Library News

First Grade In Action

First Grade was introduced to the genre of biography by listening to ‘Young Amelia Earhart” and then learning the sign for the word airplane. May 3, 2024

First Grade Celebrates Dr. Seuss’s Birthday

First Grade March 15, 2024

First Grade Checks out Library Books

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Book Blurbs - Church church books

New Books for Church Library

Miss Brenda and the Loveladies by Brenda Sphan
One woman’s fight to provide hope for the hopeless…
Seven ex-cons who changed her heart forever…
 
For Brenda Spahn, entrepreneur and businesswoman, wealth was a lifestyle—until a brush with the law threatened to send her to prison. In those dark moments, Brenda made a promise to God. 
 
Spared incarceration, a renewed Brenda glimpsed into the lives of women serving time in one of the worst places in America—the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama
The Prodigal’s Sister by John Piper
The Grace of God is so astonishing that we cannot adequately describe it. But Jesus knew how to say it-in a parable. With the drawings of Robert Doares depicting the setting, The Prodigal’s Sister poetically and imaginatively retells the parable of the prodigal son with a startling twist.
In the poem the younger sister of the prodigal sets out to reclaim her brother’s life. The new life the prodigal finds in his father’s love is mirrored in the mercy the legalistic elder brother finds when he learns that his slave-like labor is useless in winning his father’s love. 
Atlas Girl by Emily Wierenga
In this lyrical memoir, a disillusioned pastor’s daughter searches the globe for God and finds him in the most unexpected place-back home.

Divine Collision by Jim Gash
Discover the compelling true story of a former L. A. lawyer and a Ugandan boy falsely accused of murder — two courageous friends brought together by God on a mission to reform criminal justice.

Jim Gash, former Los Angeles lawyer and current president of Pepperdine University, tells the amazing story of how, after a series of God-orchestrated events, he finds himself in the heart of Africa defending a courageous Ugandan boy languishing in prison and wrongfully accused of two separate murders. Ultimately, their unlikely friendship and unrelenting persistence reforms Uganda’s criminal justice system, leaving a lasting impact on hundreds of thousands of lives and revealing a relationship that supersedes circumstance, culture, and the walls we often hide behind.
No God? NO WAY! by Chris Hathaway, a science teacher at Martin Luther High School in Milwaukee.

Society has decided that science and religion are opposed to each other. They are not. They are united. They back each other up. Science always complements the Bible. That’s the truth, and the purpose of this book is to explore that reality. Zooming in to the smallest part of a cell and zooming out to the largest extent of the universe testify to the same thing, the necessity of a creator. ‘No God? No Way!’ And along the “way,” author Chris Hathaway uses his experience as a science teacher (along with lots of basic common sense) to show how the big bang and the general theory of evolution fall to pieces when burdened with real-life testing and analysis. But what about natural selection? Is carbon dating legitimate? What’s the deal with dinosaurs and how do they fit into all this? These questions and plenty more will be answered as you journey through this exciting book. So suit up. Pack your essentials. Put on your hiking boots and grab that space helmet. We’re going for a ride.