Book Care, Word Art, and OPAC (our week in Review)
This week saw us doing a wide variety of things in library/media.
The younger grades continued to learn about book care and all class (1-5) have now had their first check-out of the year. Each year we have seen more damaged/lost books at Harritt so each year I have tried to impress upon the students responsibility in a fun and creative way. This year the younger children learned about the job of an illustrator or they illustrated a book care rule for me to use to help teach the kindergarten students when they begin to check-out books. Look for some of these wonderful illustrations at Open House next week in the hallway displays.
Middle grades had hoped to begin typing their "Recipes for Good Year" this week but as we progressed through the week we ran into technical difficulties in the lab that caused us to abandon that lesson for another week and focus on one aspect of Microsoft Word. We experimented with the Word Art tool in partners typing our names. Oh this was a fun lesson full of ooohs and aaahs! We look forward to returning to our recipes at a later date but regret that they will not be on display for Open House.
Upper grades spent time doing a scavenger hunt using the OPAC system (Online Public Access Catalog) We learned how to search for books in our library by title, author and keyword. It proved to be both fun and useful as the students enter the year being able to confidently locate information on their own should the need arise.
It was my privilege to go to each kindergarten classroom and met the kindergarten students and next week I will be visiting each classroom for a storytime as we build towards their first trip to the library media center in the coming weeks.
The younger grades continued to learn about book care and all class (1-5) have now had their first check-out of the year. Each year we have seen more damaged/lost books at Harritt so each year I have tried to impress upon the students responsibility in a fun and creative way. This year the younger children learned about the job of an illustrator or they illustrated a book care rule for me to use to help teach the kindergarten students when they begin to check-out books. Look for some of these wonderful illustrations at Open House next week in the hallway displays.
Middle grades had hoped to begin typing their "Recipes for Good Year" this week but as we progressed through the week we ran into technical difficulties in the lab that caused us to abandon that lesson for another week and focus on one aspect of Microsoft Word. We experimented with the Word Art tool in partners typing our names. Oh this was a fun lesson full of ooohs and aaahs! We look forward to returning to our recipes at a later date but regret that they will not be on display for Open House.
Upper grades spent time doing a scavenger hunt using the OPAC system (Online Public Access Catalog) We learned how to search for books in our library by title, author and keyword. It proved to be both fun and useful as the students enter the year being able to confidently locate information on their own should the need arise.
It was my privilege to go to each kindergarten classroom and met the kindergarten students and next week I will be visiting each classroom for a storytime as we build towards their first trip to the library media center in the coming weeks.
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