Week of September 14

Another week down! Here's the week in review:

Preschool read My Friend Rabbit and checked out a picture book. They're practicing looking at the signs in that section and selecting a book of interest.

AK students read My Friend Rabbit as well. This week was the first time they checked out a non-fiction title. We walked through the non-fiction books about animals and picked out one of those.

Kindergartener's heard the story I Love My Hat by Douglas Florian. This book is full of rhymes, which is what kindergartners are working on right now. After reading, we used the Promethean board to identify rhymes. Many of the rhymes were from the book, matching an animal to an article of clothing. The rest of them were matching rhyming animals. They dragged an image out of the "magic orange box" and matched it up with the rhyme. 

First graders got a little lesson on libraries around the world, so that we can continue to practice text-to-world connections. First, we made a list of how kids can get books. Then I showed them pictures of many libraries, and we read some pages from My Librarian is a Camel by Margriet Ruurs.

Second grade students learned about homophones & homonyms in their classrooms this week, and got some extra practice during library. We looked at some pages from the book How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear? by Bryan P. Cleary. We used the Promethean board to drag synonyms on top of the book pages, and to spell out some homophones/homonyms.

Third graders again practiced logging in to the computers and getting in to the library catalog. We practiced searching books and looking for the call number. To show they knew where the call number is, we used the Plickers cards after searching a particular book. Next week we'll practice using the call numbers to find the books! 

Fourth graders began a book scavenger hunt. They have to find 3 books the meet a keyword and Lexile level criteria, then take a book selfie with that book. They put the selfies into a Google Doc to send to me. We'll finish working on this next week!

I really, really love book selfies :)