Felt Balls, Reading Buddies, and Library Cards — The Early Learning Community First-Second Grade

This four-day week flew by in a flurry of excitement and new activities. Ms. Linda came in to teach us how to make felt dryer balls using roving. This activity required much persistence and stamina as students carefully added bits of roving to the ball, using firm pressure to create a spherical shape. We will continue our work on this project next week. Today was the much-anticipated first meeting with our preschool buddies too! All week long Otters practiced reading their books with good expression and fluency. Then they meet with buddies from both the Dolphins and Seals class to read their stories. Our Otter students read with good expression and respectful behavior; truly stepping up as role models for our community. We will continue to meet with our preschool buddies each Friday. This afternoon we visited the Pacific University library. The librarians there had been preparing for our visit by purchasing new children’s books, creating a cozy reading corner for young readers, and printing library cards. Students received their own university library cards that they can use each week to check out books. We felt so welcomed in this lovely university space and we can’t wait to for more library trips.