K’s learning coding commands with BeeBots! Lake Forest School District 67 Margo Newtown

Our favorite activity! Character pumpkins are making their way in! Lake Forest School District 67 Margo Newtown Creative, thoughtful, clever designs!

1st grade authors and illustrators in Sketches School. Lake Forest School District 67 Margo Newtown

Media Literacy at 4th grade. Can’t discuss enough. Lake Forest School District 67 Margo Newtown

How would you design and build your own bathysphere? #barbrosenstock Oh, and you can only choose 6 items. Creation at its best! Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

Design Process #DesignThinking at work! Redesign Market Square for kids, an animal crossing, arcade game or book/character-themed mini-golf hole! Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

K’s morning book checkout! My favorite start to the day!! Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

2Maines shared their kindness today by creating bookmarks and placing them in Library books to surprise those who check out those books! Kathy Maines Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

Inspired by two books, K’s create and transform our Sheridan Library community. Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67 Some even regroup with some meditation and humming! Libraries can sometimes be noisy with productive chaos!

Introduced basic animation! These kids took off with creativity!!! Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

Animation Introduction-kids were so creative!! Left it up to them to decide what they’d like to animate! Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

K’s retelling through Legos and Art. Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

Let them go with motion…love their stories and imaginations! #iMotion Lake Forest School District 67 Margo Newtown

Librarians at work! Learning about the weeding process and applying it to books using a rubric! Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

Sometimes kids just need some extra time to just enjoy books for pleasure! #ilovebooks #SHlightbulblab #lakeforestd67 #lfmoments

Classes enjoy author Brooke Saucier’s reading of his Epic Poem, The Isle of Stuck Faces for Poetry Month. He’s coming back to finish per student request!! @Shlightbulblab @LFMoments Lake Forest School District 67

K’s learned the connection among ships, a spring and a marvelous thing…a slinky! What fun making their own accidental inventions! Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67

Coding with Dash in Library class. Small group learning sequencing and looping..,and the joy in their learning is everything! Margo Newtown Lake Forest School District 67 #lfmoments

What’s my message to all students after 30+ years of teaching, 13 as Librarian? Picture Book titles to spark my wishes and dreams for them. #lfmoments #lakeforestd67 Margo Newtown