Erickson Elementary Fine Arts

What’s Happening at the Erickson Library? In Kindergarten Library class, we talked about point of view. Point of view the mouth and eyes of the story. In 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade library class, we talked about nonfiction!  We reviewed the text features of maps, captions, special print and glossary.   We looked at  nonfiction books to see if those books had the text features we learned.  In 2nd and 3rd grade we took "selfies" of all the text features we could find in the books! OH there are so many! In 4th grade, we learned how books are shelved in the library. We had a library Hunt, looking for books that were on the shelf and determining if they were fiction or nonfiction books! 5th grade we learned about different genres of books and the differences between the genres. Poetry vs. Novel and Verse, Historical Fiction vs. Informational and Memoir vs. Autobiography. We found some great books to read too! If you have any questions, please contact me at h...

    Erickson Elementary School  Music Class Newsletter  December 2023 & January 2024 Edition 

First graders learned about the 5 characteristics of Fiction in October!  We learned about character, setting, plot, point of view and theme. We start talking about the characteristic and reading the book and discussing what the Fiction characteristic is in the story.  Some questions asked were: If the setting was different would the story make sense?  If there wasn’t a problem in the story would it be a good book to read? We learned about…  Characters in the book titled Nobody Hugs A Cactus by Carter Goodrich Setting in the book titled: Leaf Trouble by Jonathan Emmett Plot in the book titled Bark, George by Jules Feiffer Point of View in titled: Seriously Cinderella is so Annoying by  Trisha Speed Shaskan Theme in the book titled: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann