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Day 56 – 131st Street Connections: FHS & SCE Read Together

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FHSReadingTigers2One of the advantages to having several school buildings in close proximity is the potential for ongoing connections between our youngest and oldest learners!  These important connections happen twice weekly on 131st Street, when the Fishers Reading Tigers walk across the road to meet their reading buddies at Sand Creek Elementary.

The FHS Reading Tigers program, now in its second year, pairs young readers with high school students who serve as peer tutors. This year, before reading buddy matches were made, Media Specialist Renee Isom and senior Alicia Macchione, club president, educated potential peer tutors on the basics of young children’s literature and literacy instruction in order to prepare students for their role.

FHSReadingTigers3Walk into Sand Creek during the last half hour of the elementary school day on a Monday or Wednesday, and you’ll be sure to see reading partners throughout the halls, engrossed in stories and conversation. Each FHS teen reader connects weekly with his or her very own reading buddy. New friends are reading and learning together. Connections within a learning community. Part of the HSE21 educational experience.

Day 18 – Curiosity and “The Blob”

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IMG_1937Some Lantern Road Elementary students had their curiosity doubly sparked today, when they entered the Media Center and saw–? A big blue blob! Actually, the big blue blob is Digitarium, a portable Planetarium that will remain at LRE for the entire week. “The students have been learning about non-fiction resources, and this surprise makes the perfect culmination and connection to our unit,” said Media Specialist Lori Silbert. Mrs. Silbert’s parent helper today added that being exposed to the night sky through Digitarium fosters curiosity in the children. “It makes them want to go outside and night and think about the stars.”

Curiosity. It’s inherent in every child. Great teachers foster this natural desire to understand the world — through Blobs and tales of the night sky — and in countless other HSE21 learning experiences every day.

-Submitted on behalf of Lori Silbert, Lantern Road Elementary Media Specialist

Day 4 – This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Library

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Within seconds of entering the Fall Creek Intermediate School media center today, it was clear that this was no ordinary library! By ‘ordinary’, I mean the library of my childhood, where a bun-haired, frowning librarian gloried in saying, “Shhhh!”, and books that we were afraid to touch (for fear of our librarian’s wrath) sat dusty and unread.

At FCI today, the library (aka, media center) was a bustling hub of activity! Fifth graders scanned QR codes to find information to complete a library scavenger hunt. As they discovered what their new school’s media center had to offer, they were clearly pleased. FCI students have much to look forward to during their media center visits this year. No “Shhhing” allowed!

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FCI 5th graders use their iPads to scan QR codes that will lead them to information about their new library.

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Media Specialist Terri Zabonick helps a student search the library catalog…on an iPad!

-Submitted by Susan Drumm, Instructional Technology Coach