Kindergarten Spring Poetry

Our kindergarten students have been discovering their five senses through stories, discussions, writing, and illustrating.  Our project began with reading the story My Five Senses by Aliki with our librarian, Miss Carney.

After reading the story, Miss Carney and Mrs. Ardizzoni helped students brainstorm and discuss their ideas of things they could see, hear, taste, touch, and smell during the season of spring.

During the next meeting, students wrote one sentence for each of the senses, beginning with the phrase, "In the spring, I" see / hear / taste / touch / smell ________________________________.

Then students used the app, Drawing Pad on their classroom iPads, to illustrate one of the sense sentences they had written.  After illustrating, Miss Carney and Mrs. Ardizzoni helped students type the sentence on their drawings and students then concluded by "autographing" their artwork.

Next, Mrs. Ardizzoni used the app, Book Creator to compile all of the students' illustrations and writing into one classroom poetry book.  Here we are, at the conclusion of the project where students got to see their final product as both an ebook and hardcopy classroom book.  Students were called up to the board when their page was displayed and they read their sentence aloud.  Congratulations kindergartners on being authors, illustrators, presenters, and increasing your digital literacy skills!

Please scroll down through the pages of Our Spring Senses Poetry Book. There are three ebooks to enjoy.

Spring Birthday Book Club!

Spring Birthday Book Club is here!

If you would like to contribute to the Birthday Book Club, a donation amount of $15.00 is greatly appreciated. Please complete and return the application below to the library along with your check payable to Pine Glen LTC. Your child will be invited to the library to select a book from the new acquisitions. A special bookplate with your child’s name and your name(s) as the donor will be placed inside the front cover. Your child’s photo with the birthday book will be added to the Birthday Book Club Wall outside the library and on the Pine Glen Library & Technology Center website (unless Pine Glen has on record that you do not wish for us to publicly use your child’s image.)

Please return your completed Birthday Book Club form and payment to the library by June 1st. Thank you as always for your support of the Pine Glen LTC!

Click here for the Birthday Book Club Form.

Book Fair

Thanks to everyone who helped make our Spring Scholastic Book Fair such a success! If you'd still like to order online, the sale continues until tomorrow, Tuesday, 5/24. All orders will be delivered to Pine Glen and distributed to students by Miss Carney.

Thanks again, everyone! Look for our next book fair in late November, 2016!

Click here to order from the Pine Glen Online Book Fair!

Sixth Grade Summer Reading

As we get ready for summer reading, here is a link to the summer reading choices for incoming sixth graders at MSMS. Students will read and take notes on their book choice- you only have to choose one! There will be an open-note multiple choice quiz in the Fall, so take your time, read carefully, take good notes, and most importantly, enjoy your book!

Keep reading this summer, and be sure to visit the Burlington Public Library to check out books and take part in their awesome summer programming!



Click here for Summer Reading for Incoming Sixth Graders!

Enhancing Student Learning With Technology

Pine Glen's annual Arts & Technology night is an eventful evening showcasing our students' many talents.  On behalf of our librarian Miss Carney, and myself, Mrs. Ardizzoni, we would like to share our Google Slides presentation highlighting our students learning using technology, digital citizenship, STEM skills, and digital literacy skills across all of our elementary grade levels.  Feel free to pause any slide in order to scan a qr code to access student work or to click the play button to watch a video.  Take a peek at what our students have accomplished!  As their teachers we are very proud of them!

Bulletin Board - Learning Using Technology