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Live Oak Middle Library

2022-2023 Library Events

Talk Like a Pirate Day with Author Heidi Schulz

Exploring Carnegie Hall in 360 & Creating Music in Band Class

Virtual Reality in 5th Grade Science: Exploring the Stars

First Library Visit of the Year

2021-2022 Library Events

Painting Book-Themed Ceiling Tiles


Library Awards Breakfast


Researching Military Appreciation Month


Sock Puppet Poetry


Flipped & the Chicken Coop Design Challenge


Author Visit with Jordan Sonnenblick


LOM Cardboard Challenge


LPPS District Battle of the Books

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Live Oak Middle Placed 4th

Author Visit with Jennifer Nielsen


Live Oak Middle Battle of the Books


5th Graders Research Plymouth to Escape Breakout Boxes


6th Grade Math Breakout Boxes


Journey with Jones Virtual Trip: Mars


5th Grade Math Breakout Boxes


Silent Reading Club & Girls Who Code Field Trip


International Bookmark Exchange with Portugal


6th Grade SS: Exploring Hindu and Buddhist Temples


5th Grade Science: Examining Water Erosion on VR Headsets


World Read Aloud Day 2022


Battle of Books Voting: Vote for your Favorite Title on Real Voting Machines

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6th Grade ELA: Using Book Creator, Scholastic Go, and VR Headsets


5th Grade Science: Ecosystem Virtual Trips & Research


The Snowy Day: Book and Playing in the "Snow"


5th Grade Math Quiz Bowl: Olivier vs May


6th Grade ELA: Animal Allies Breakout Boxes

Bananagram Fun!


6th Grade Math: The Math Curse Digital Escape


5th Grade SS: Journey with Jones Virtual Trip

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5th Grade SS: Researching Aztecs Using Student eCards


6th Grade SS: Early Humans STEM Challenge

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International Dot Day

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5th Grade Math: The Grapes of Math


 5th Grade STEM Science Experiment & Research on Matter

2021 Orientation


2020-2021 Library Events

Schools Battle of the Books

District Battle of the Books 

You Can Do the Rubik's Cube

You Can Do the Rubik's Cube

225 Rubik's were used to create a mosaic of our principal's face!
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5th Grade SS: Using Student eCards to Learn About Salem Witch Trials


5th Grade Science: All That Trash Unit

We read aloud All That Trash: The 1987 Garbage Barge Incident and Our Problems with Trash, researched recycling, ​and created towers out of recycled bottle caps.

Cleveland's Exploration Research Unit


World Read Aloud Day 2021

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LA Young Readers' Choice Awards Voting
(On REAL voting machines!)


5th Grade Science Breakout Boxes on Food Chains


6th Grade STEM Circuits


Math Breakout Boxes


Sock Puppet Poetry Theater 
​(340 Students Participated!)


​Check out our Sock Puppet Playlist on YouTube!

Boy Bites Bug Entomophagy Lesson and Author Visit

Ms. Smith's ELA classes read Boy Bites Bug by Rebecca Petruck and researched entomophagy (the study of eating bugs) before sampling mealworms, beetles, and crickets!  Check out our author visit HERE. 

5th Grade Science: Virtual Trip on Ecosystems


Holes: Making Sploosh and Yellow-Spotted Lizard Pencil Toppers


5th Grade Social Studies: Navigating World Book Online


Top Read-A-Thon Fundraisers Receive Autographed Books


Mrs. Workman's Science Classes Researched Using
​Student eCards,  ScienceFlix, and Flipgrid


Learning About Forces and Motion with Student eCards and ScienceFlix


Math Quiz Bowls


Virtual Chat with Our Public Library
View the chat at ​http://bit.ly/LPLchat. 


2019-2020 Library Events

Stop Motion Animation Fairy Tales


International Bookmark Exchange: Croatia, India, Hungary, China


City of Ember Pipeworks STEM/Design Thinking Challenge


Karen Land:  Iditarod Racer, Writer, and Wilderness Advocate


Math Madness: Breakouts, Simulations, & Flipgrid Tutorials


World Read Aloud Day 2020: Author Skypes


Civil War Skype for Novel Unit: 
​The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P Figg


Math Measurements: Combining Library Skills, Math, and STEM


Voting for Our Favorite LA Young Readers' Choice Titles


Breakout Boxes:  Ecosystems


Hour of Code!


Circuits: Makey Makey, Snap Circuits, Potato Batteries, and LittleBits


Working on Our Traveling Mural


5th Grade Science Pollination Simulation and Research



Halloween Makerspaces: AR Pumpkin Carving and Make-a-Monster


Mosaic Using 180 Rubiks Cubes


We Reached Our Book Fair Goal and Slimed Our Principal


Mrs. Pizzolato's Class Read Dragons Love Tacos and Made Their Own Tacos


Mr. Johnson's SS Traveled to Ancient Egypt To Research for Breakout Boxes


Going Batty:  Skyping a Bat Scientist & Reading Bats at the Libray


5th Grade Breakout Boxes: Thunder Rolling in the Mountains


Scholastic Book Fair


Humans as Animal Allies: Skype, Research, Flipgrid, & Green Screen Fun


Destiny, Math, and Coding, Oh My!

Community Mosaic: 3,996 Stickers + 720 Students=Art
International Dot Day Celebration!
3-D Dots, Dot Collage, and Button Making

Mrs. Cleveland's Classes Helped Florian Bates Recover the Lost
Van Gogh Painting from the Breakout Box (Framed by James Ponti)

5th Grade Mystery Skype with Wyoming State Museum

Ms. Carroll's ELA Class Completed Breakout Boxes: Thunder Rolling in the Mountains 

6th Grade Space Research and Green Screen 
5th Grade Science Classes Used World Book Online
​ to Research and Create Flipgrid Videos

First Library Visit of the Year

2018-2019 Library Events

Millionaires Celebration (Students Who Read 1 Million Words)

Battle of the Books Breakfast

LPPS READgional Battle of the Books

Mrs. Courville's Class Painted Ceiling Tiles of Their Fave Books

3rd Annual Cardboard Challenge

Using eCards to Research Solar Systems on ScienceFlix
Live Oak Middle Battle of the Books
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Girls Who Code Field Trip

Warrior Cats Event After School

The STEAM Express Visited Today
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Using eCards and the Opposing Viewpoints Database to Research
Hot Topics Like Dress Code, Social Media, Etc.


Math Quiz Bowl

Digital Literacy/Science of Cells Breakout Box

Whodunnit?  It's a Mystery! Analyzing the Mystery Genre

Skype a Scientist: Transportation Engineering & Electric Cars

Valentine's Day: Researching Unique Animal Pairs

Our Community Sticker Mosaic:  725 Students + 7,040 Stickers

Book Tasting Traditional Literature with Mrs. Freeman's ELA Class

We Skyped Authors Emma Otheguy, Stel Pavlou, and Lee Gjersten Malone
​for World Read Aloud Day 2019!


Special Guests Reading Aloud to Our Students for World Read Aloud Day 2019

Researching the Salem Witch Trials & Creating Flipgrids

Battle of the Books Voting on REAL Voting Machines!

Science Classes Skyped Vulture Author/Educator Debra Toor

5th Grade Math Breakout Boxes

Our 6th Graders Participated in the International Bookmark Exchange with
Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, and Portugal


Students Skyped with Louisiana First Lady Donna Edwards

6th Grade Students Took a Virtual Field Trip to Calaveras Big Trees State Park

Mr. Beck's Science Classes Explored Circuits in Our Electricity
​and Circuit Lab called "Potato Power"

Mrs. Mayfield's ELA Classes Researched & Created Short Stories Using Idioms and
Used Flipgrid to Explain History and Meanings of Their Idioms

Rubik's Cube Mosaic: 400 Cubes!