Two Weeks Worth of Review In One Post
Where did the time go? Somehow the last couple of weeks have blended into one long review of what has been happening in Library M edia, so here it goes….
Kindergarten had some wonderful stories read to them over the past two weeks. The Giant Carrot was an introduction the genre of Tall Tales. We talked about how often a story can be passed around and each time it is told the details become more and more unbelievable. Can I keep Him by Stephen Kellogg was a great book for noticing patterns in the illustrations, as well as, patterns in the text. Pinkerton Behave also by Stephen Kellogg was a brain test story. As the children listened to the story near the end I asked them to recall a part of the story and how this story might end using the text patterns.
1st graders were introduced to yet two more of their favorite authors. Norman Birdwell is the creator of the ever popular Clifford the Big Red Dog books. They were also introduced to David Shannon the creator of the No David books, as well as, many other great books. We reviewed how to locate a book from the "Everybody" section by a random letter assigned to each child. We introduced the concept of Cause and Effect in relationship to the No David book by David Shannon. (Some 1st graders missed these lessons due to field trips)
2nd graders watched a video on Norman Birdwell, as Clifford books are still very popular at this age. We followed-up the video with reading a couple of the Clifford books that were highlighted in the video interview. We talked about Animal Fantasy and watched for ways that it was brought out in the story Berloza the Bear by Jan Brett. Beatrice’s Goat by ……and A Bad Case Of Stripes by David Shannon were the books read that gave us a chance to again visit the topic of Diversity. 2nd graders were locating books in the nonfiction section by first the 100 ’s divisions then by specific book number and title. Though number and title was much more of a challenge, many students rose to the occasion and the smiles were very big with their success at locating the book assign to them. 2nd graders were also sent into the Fiction section to locate authors as well by the random letter assigned. This was very successful with all 2nd graders.
3rd, 4th and 5th graders were introduced to the genre of Tall Tales and what are the elements of a Tall Tale. We also worked on the skill of writing captions and what should be included in a caption. These students were also put to the test of locating both non-fiction books by specific call number and random fiction authors. We reviewed how the call number is located on the spine of a book and what a call number looks like for a fiction books as students created pretend spine labels for fiction books.
All in all it was a very busy time of learning in library media the last two weeks.
Kindergarten had some wonderful stories read to them over the past two weeks. The Giant Carrot was an introduction the genre of Tall Tales. We talked about how often a story can be passed around and each time it is told the details become more and more unbelievable. Can I keep Him by Stephen Kellogg was a great book for noticing patterns in the illustrations, as well as, patterns in the text. Pinkerton Behave also by Stephen Kellogg was a brain test story. As the children listened to the story near the end I asked them to recall a part of the story and how this story might end using the text patterns.
1st graders were introduced to yet two more of their favorite authors. Norman Birdwell is the creator of the ever popular Clifford the Big Red Dog books. They were also introduced to David Shannon the creator of the No David books, as well as, many other great books. We reviewed how to locate a book from the "Everybody" section by a random letter assigned to each child. We introduced the concept of Cause and Effect in relationship to the No David book by David Shannon. (Some 1st graders missed these lessons due to field trips)
2nd graders watched a video on Norman Birdwell, as Clifford books are still very popular at this age. We followed-up the video with reading a couple of the Clifford books that were highlighted in the video interview. We talked about Animal Fantasy and watched for ways that it was brought out in the story Berloza the Bear by Jan Brett. Beatrice’s Goat by ……and A Bad Case Of Stripes by David Shannon were the books read that gave us a chance to again visit the topic of Diversity. 2nd graders were locating books in the nonfiction section by first the 100 ’s divisions then by specific book number and title. Though number and title was much more of a challenge, many students rose to the occasion and the smiles were very big with their success at locating the book assign to them. 2nd graders were also sent into the Fiction section to locate authors as well by the random letter assigned. This was very successful with all 2nd graders.
3rd, 4th and 5th graders were introduced to the genre of Tall Tales and what are the elements of a Tall Tale. We also worked on the skill of writing captions and what should be included in a caption. These students were also put to the test of locating both non-fiction books by specific call number and random fiction authors. We reviewed how the call number is located on the spine of a book and what a call number looks like for a fiction books as students created pretend spine labels for fiction books.
All in all it was a very busy time of learning in library media the last two weeks.
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