Winter Way
- Ms. Najera
- Dec 1, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 9
After spending much needed time with friends and family, our winter season is fast-approaching, and what a way to welcome this time with some chilly stories to warm your heart.
Objective: Learn how to find books using library signs, sections, and visuals. Practice asking for help when looking for specific topics. Develop skills in using the online catalog and navigating both print and digital collections (including a revisit to MackinVia).
ALA Standards:
Student: I.A.1, II.A.2
Staff: I.A.2, I.B.2, I.D.1, II.A.3, II.C.1, II.D.2, III.A.1, III.B.1, III.C.2, IV.A.1, IV.A.2, IV.B.1, V.A.1, V.B.1, V.D.2, VI.A.1, VI.B.2, VI.D.3
ASL WORDS THEME: Winter
STORYTIME
Hemming, Alice
AR Quiz No. 551712
RL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 0.5
When Squirrel sees snow for the first time, Bird helps him adjust. Just as Squirrel starts to enjoy it, the snow disappears, leaving Squirrel convinced a thief is on the loose.
Dean, James
AR Quiz No. 186771
RL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 0.5
After a heavy snowfall cancels school, Pete enjoys his day off. When one snow day turns into many, he realizes that you can have too much of a good thing.
Colandro, Lucille
AR Quiz No. 87226
RL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 0.5
Modeled on the folk song "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," this story describes a cold lady who swallowed many different things, one after the other, but what happens after she swallows snow?
STUDENT TECHNOLOGY RESPONSIBILITY
TEACHER TOOLS
Explore advanced features in Google Docs, Sheets, Forms, Drive, and Slides. Use Google forms for assessment and organize files in Google Drive to streamline instruction.
GOOGLE DOCS - a free, web-based word processor offered by Google, allowing users to create, edit, and format documents in real-time within a web browser or mobile app. It enables seamless collaboration, where multiple users can edit the same document simultaneously while automatically saving changes to Google Drive.
GOOGLE SHEETS - a free, cloud-based spreadsheet application within the Google Workspace suite that allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on data in real-time. Accessible via web browsers, it features automatic saving, robust collaboration tools, data analysis tools (pivot tables, charts), and integrations with other Google apps.
GOOGLE FORMS - a free, web-based survey and form-building tool offered by Google. It allows users to create, customize, and share online forms, quizzes, and surveys to collect data, which is then automatically organized and can be analyzed in real time, often by linking to Google Sheets.
GOOGLE DRIVE - a secure, cloud-based file storage and synchronization service developed by Google that allows users to store, share, and access files from any device. It offers free, shared storage (typically 15 GB) across Google services and enables real-time collaboration on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
GOOGLE SLIDES - a free, web-based presentation software developed by Google, allowing users to create, edit, and collaborate on presentations in real-time within a web browser. As part of the Google Workspace suite, it enables creating slide decks, inserting media, and using themes, similar to PowerPoint but cloud-based.
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