What's up at Poetry club?

This week, we looked at poetry by Gary Soto which talks about his neighborhood. We started by choosing a favorite place and drawing it so we'd be ready to describe it in our poems.

We talked about how you choose your favorite place and how you visualize it, as well as what form the poem might take. We're not done yet, so we'll post them next week.

Last week, at WPK's birthday party, we gave our friends and neighbors our first book of poems, which were about our library. We'll work on getting those posted, too.

Breaking news from WPK library!

Breaking news!

Sam and Jorge B caught in unbearable chess staredown at chess club tonight.

Ace reporter Jesus N is refining his startling investigation into the Great Bench Fire of 2010. Jesus is also working on a biography of the library staff.

Bergina in on vacation from Wheeler School and prepping our new Bedtime Stories section for the parenting collection. She'll definitely be playing softball this year.

Stephanie, who attends Cooley Health and Sciences, is getting ready to run her first art class at WPK. She's going to introduce pastels as the first medium.

Leilani has a new beagle puppy.

Upcoming Science Fair at Alan Shawn Feinstein Broad Street Elementary School

Danny and Damian are leading the pack in their investigation into how water changes when it's frozen. Their investigation is well organized and their scientific method is thoroughly discussed in the first draft of their question, method and hypothesis. Watch this page to find out exactly what happens to water molecules when they freeze.

New Playground coming to WPK Community Center

Nuno and Jesus attended the open kids' meeting at WPKCC to give input on the design for the new playground going in on June at our community center. We'll post the date when the community comes together to build it. Call Fran at the Washington Park Community Center for more details.

Library workers news

Lanham has some art in the library fundraiser and also has not been cleaning her house enough. Jackie went home early this week to go pick up her family's new puppy Milo.